CHAPTER 16
Startled, I knocked my cell off the desk onto the floor and scrambled to grab it before it stopped ringing. After breaking several phones, I'd finally gotten smart and invested in a ballistic hardcore tactical case. Now, my phone could survive drops of twelve feet onto concrete. Being a klutz, I tended to break a lot of stuff, including pinky toes. Sometimes I even dropped stuff on my pinky toe and broke two things at once. Don't try that at home, kids, I'm a trained professional.
I managed to answer on the fourth ring. "Hello?"
"Hey Jamie, it's Jess, why are you out of breath?"
"Just doing a little exercise," I said, because crawling around on the floor looking for your cell phone counts. "I was so sorry to hear about Clarence," I added. "Do they know what happened?" I stoo
