Chapter 7
Paula snapped, "I don't see what you have to be upset about! You threw me out!" She made no effort to arrange her clothing.
"That's true, my dear, I did, and I'm truly sorry about that. I wasn't ... myself." If Greer had been drunk earlier, he showed no signs of it now. His speech wasn't slurred. He spoke in the slow, measured cadence that always reminded Cotty of an undertaker's unctuous tones.
Paula's full lips drew back in a sneer. "You were drunk, why don't you admit it?"
"All right, I will admit it. And for that reason I can find it in me to overlook your behavior ... this time."
Cotty gave an involuntary leap as he glimpsed a movement to the right of Greer. Juval stepped forward into the light, grinning at Cotty. That explained how Greer had found them. Juval had be
