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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W e had leftover mustard chicken sandwiches for lunch—Rose is obsessive about food and since even her leftovers were good, I didn’t object—and then we went back and searched the rest of the basement. We found a lot of odd stuff but no money. Then Rose said Poppy would be home soon, and we needed showers, so we went upstairs and took one together to save water. Saving the environment is important. Even more important is a wet, naked, soapy Rose, laughing with me. That was a long shower.

Then Poppy came home and we had dinner, hamburgers that Rose called “smashburgers,” and I didn’t care what she named them, they were damn good. There was a salad, of course, the Malones were heavily into greens, and french fries, and we just ate and talked about the search, and Poppy and I fought over the last of the ketchup, her laughing the whole time, and Rose looked at me with so much favor that I realized I was fitting in here too well.

We needed some distance. I’d just stay down here tonight. Keep watch.