14
“HOW’S it going with the Dead Girl?” Dexter asked that night when Suro called to talk about the current slate of assignments. No hits scheduled, but they’d had to plot out security details for several parties going into the busy holiday season.
“We’ve come to an understanding,” Suro answered. “And she’s still very much alive.”
Most days Suro appreciated his friend’s sense of humor, but today wasn’t one of them. Technically, he’d gotten what he most wanted from Lacey. She was back in his bed. She cooked him warm meals and offered him companionship like he had never known.
His silence had intimidated most of the women he’d been with before Lacey, including his ex-wife. Often, the ones who didn’t eventually leave with exhortations that he needed to “work on his communication skills” en
