“Lonny let you go?”
“I asked him to let me go, and he understood, and cut me loose. I'm no longer under his thrall. He hasn't summoned me, at least.” But I got the hint that if Lonny wanted to he could, since Chris bore his bite.
We talked until I was almost home. Lindee's arm was tiring and so I had to let Chris go with a promise of calling him around Christmas-time to catch up.
“What about the Priory? What do I tell them?”
“Ah, tell them to come out this afternoon around one,” I said. “I'll have the ward down then.” We hung up.
“You know, Brie, I used to feel sorry for you because you had no boyfriends,” Lindee said, looking at me with admiration.
“Yeah?”
“Yeah. But I'm no longer feeling sorry for you. I'm in awe of you.”
I chuckled. “A lot of these guys aren't my boyfriends. A b
