Jimmy called about thirty minutes later. I was still sitting and staring out into the awakening valley. I didn’t even know he and Stone got up this early. I guess maybe Jimmy being a barista who served the before-work crowd meant he kept early hours.
“Hey, Adam!” His cheery voice rubbed me the wrong way, but I gutted up and didn’t let it rile me. “How’s it going? I heard you had an early morning visitor.”
“Fine. What’s up with you?” LJ must have called them because Stone was my emergency contact. Was this an emergency? Hell, yeah.
“I got some dark Jamaican in last night and thought maybe I’d roast it and bring it along tonight so we could all try it. What do you think?”
“I dunno. What is it?” I couldn’t talk about my morning. I was too numb.
“Well, it’s pretty smooth. Kinda like the d
