WHEN ALEX GETS HOME from the range that night Paul isn’t there, and the internet is already going on a mini rampage over Alex and guns. Again. As entertaining as that is, Paul’s absence is irritating. This is Alex’s one day off before another six-day block of shooting, and he wants some time. They’re not going to be awake and together for more than an hour a day for at least the next ten days. Sometimes, their jobs suck.
Paul, though, is not making their lives any easier. Whatever panic he’d brought back from New York and upfronts is clearly still alive and well weeks later. His twelve-hour days at the office are getting longer.
On the rare occasions he is home, he rarely leaves his office except to go to bed. Even that he does reluctantly. To Alex, it becomes something of a game: how n*
