Rick’s arm tightened around my waist. I snuggled against his shoulder. From the other side of the Avion, I could hear Brandy’s soft breathing.
Knocking sounded at the door of the trailer. I groaned.
A moment later, I heard a click and the clunking of feet on the metal step.
“Janet?”
“Emergency key doesn’t mean let yourself in at the ass-crack of dawn,” I muttered.
“I heard that,” Thea told me.
“She’s gonna wash your mouth out,” Rick whispered in my ear.
I snorted.
“Golly, you two. Can’t you just… not?”
“You’re in my home now, Thea, so zip it. And you’d better have a damn good reason to be waking me up at…” I glance at the alarm clock “Six fifteen in the morning.”
“Yes. First, I wanted to apologize to you, Ricardo, for speaking rudely to you yesterday. And then, if you’ll still ha
