Bishop watched Kodi as she hustled a small train of children from the first room to the one next door. They’d complained at first, but after Bishop bribed them with an entire retinue of pay-per-view movies if they cooperated, they had only been too happy to oblige. They’d been so excited that they didn’t even recognize him - or was it because his face was lesser known than he’d thought?
Not that a few kids should make him feel insecure, of course. They disappeared into the adjacent room with excited chatter and the beginning of an argument about which movie to watch first.
Kodi closed the door behind them before turning around. She pinned him with her sharpest stare, but he answered only with a lazy smile as he leaned against the stucco wall.
“Don’t rile them up,” she said, her voice fl
