Chapter 9
“You know what I miss most? Taking a shower.” Court spoke loudly, to no one in particular. He was inside his tent with Ronnie, and it was still early enough that Adam and Bree hadn’t come over yet to check on him, so there really was only one person he was speaking to, but Ronnie was busy cleaning the guns and didn’t bother responding. Court kept talking, filling the easy silence between them with the sound of his own familiar voice. “Hot water just raining down, and soapy lather in one of those loofah things Jeanie used to make me use. You know what I mean?”
Ronnie caressed his gun with the chamois cloth, his touch as gentle as a lover’s. “Next house we raid, I’ll see if I can grab one of those loofah things for you.”
“I don’t want one now.” Court lay ensconced in his sleepin
