Chapter 6“This is a nice place. Live here alone?”
“No.” Jay shut the door behind Stephen and absently turned the lock. “I have a roommate. My friend, Amy.”
“Is she in grad school, too?”
“She’s studying to get her teacher’s credential right now. And…I don’t think she’s here.”
Stephen waggled his eyebrows. “So we have the place to ourselves?”
“Yes. Would you like the tour?”
“Please.”
“Well, as you can see, this is the living room where we watch television and take our meals.”
He nodded at the table in the center of what the apartment brochure generously called the dining room. “What do you use that for then?”
“Nothing really. It’s just sort of taking up space. Now, if you’ll follow me, we have the kitchen next.”
“Wow, it’s not bad for an apartment this size.” Stephen half stepped i
