Chapter Thirty-Seven
Liz left more messages after the movie. Lenny resolved to distance himself from her, but he ended up calling anyway, entering a lengthy game of phone tag with someone he barely knew. He understood why the situation was difficult, why it could be construed as unacceptable, but he didn’t care. There was nothing untoward in it, and no one would ever find out anyway, especially Sebastian.
He should have known better.
“I think we should go out with a bang,” Sebastian commented absently. He was in an unusually vindictive mood and had a kept death grip on Lenny’s mind all evening, twitching him around like a marionette until he grew bored of that and settled both of them down in his room to watch television.
“‘Kay,” Lenny agreed. He couldn’t muster the will to ask what Se
