Or would it?
Only one way to find out.
I need my five minutes.
The clock on the wall behind Lawrence stopped ticking. The swamp cooler continued to hum away, though, so it wasn’t as if everything around her had been halted completely. Danica got up from the couch and went out the door, blinking against the glaring sunlight and wishing she’d thought to grab her sunglasses before she headed outside. She squinted as best she could and went over to the other house, which apparently had been Andre’s, and where some of his belongings still remained.
He answered the door only a few seconds after she knocked. Looking down at her in some surprise, he asked, “Is everything all right?”
“I don’t know yet,” she said. “I guess we’ll find out in a few minutes.”
Her reply only seemed to puzzle him t
