Chapter 23
“Did she take it?” Gus asked without preamble when Max called him late the next day.
Donna had already gone home for the night, but Gus lingered at the office. To prepare some notes for next week’s inaugural staff meeting, he told Donna when she stuck her head into his office. But really because he didn’t want to go home.
To the apartment where she no longer lived. To the white bedroom with a closet filled with the clothes she’d left behind. To the thought that she was supposed to have been his for the summer, but they hadn’t even made it to August.
“Hey, bro, did you get the office furniture I sent you?”
Gus slid a disparaging look at the red wing couch and slick guest chairs Max had sent over. He’d say it totally wasn’t his style, but as Max had already pointed out, he di
