The water was hot,scalding, actually,just the way I liked it. It felt like it was melting the layers of road dust and cheap regret right off my skin. This tub was big enough to drown a horse in, and the marble surrounding it was probably worth more than the first three houses I’d ever broken into.
I leaned my head back against the rim, closing my eyes. For a few glorious minutes, the ringing in my ears,a souvenir from a bar fight in Reno,seemed to fade. I hadn't felt this level of peace since… well, ever.
The peace lasted exactly four minutes.
The bathroom door didn't just open, it swung wide with the kind of clinical authority only my first-born could manage. I didn't even have to open my eyes to know it was him. The air in the room suddenly felt ten degrees colder, pressurized by that
