Rocky Start

Rocky Start

Author: Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer Listening Length: 11h 50m
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Think of the movie RED. Retired covert operatives living in a small town in the Smoky Mountains. What could go wrong? From the bestselling authors of Agnes and the Hitman and the Liz Danger series. Rose Malone’s landlord and employer, Ozzie Oswald, just died, and now she has no idea if she has a job or if she and her ...

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CHAPTER 42

W e had dinner together that night, the three of us, and it was cozy, companionable, right. It was too soon to call it love—I wasn’t eighteen anymore, I didn’t have rash feelings about men, Malachi had cured me of that—but it just felt right to be together like that, talking about the will, laughing about Reggie and Marley trying to deal with Max (Max calls them “the Weed Brothers,” which is kind of harsh and yet so true), teasing Poppy about being a rich woman, me sneaking Maggs mustard chicken when Max wasn’t looking until he said, “Stop spoiling her, Rose, that’s her third piece,” so he’d known all along, and then cleaning up the kitchen together until Poppy went upstairs to do homework (but really probably to call Darius) and Max went upstairs to search Ozzie’s back room again.

I stayed downstairs in the quiet of my cleaned-up kitchen and tried to think. Everything was different, everything had changed, except me.

Well, I’d changed a little.