Chapter 4Snug in my bed thirteen hours later, Ludwig was at my feet, snoring away; Mortimer was at the small of my back; and Rufus had just hopped down, agitated by my restlessness. The cats had been at my place the whole time, where Casey stayed until my return.
“Tonight, I’ll crash at my apartment at Fleckman’s.”
“Why?”
“Seems like the right thing to do, Slick.”
Ludwig lived with Johnny, so Johnny’s mother could drop by to tend to him during workdays.
“Lud will enjoy a sleepover,” Johnny had signed upon dropping him off.
“Unless he’s angry at me.”
Luddy licked my face as if covered in bacon grease.
“No one is angry with you. Seeing you, feeling you, being near you, Eli…We are sorry for the circumstances, but happy fate made it happen.”
I’d asked Johnny to stay a while, to talk.
