Undertow, Part 17

17 – The Last One Standing Two Weeks Later Roan sat at his desk, wondering if he should get it moved to the house. He could put it in his unfinished office, sit behind it, and pretend to take phone calls from suspicious wives and jealous husbands. He could fritter away the remainder of his sanity reenacting the bad old days. He knew realistically he should just shut the office down, go web only, work more or less exclusively with Dennis, just cut it all off. But it was one more piece of Paris he’d be giving away, and he couldn’t do that yet. He might not ever be able to do that. So this place would have to become a dust gatherer, the most expensive paperweight ever. While he was sitting there, trying to pretend he wasn’t some miserable nostalgic...

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Undertow, Part 16

16 – Black Sheep Just looking at her from across the desk, Roan knew what she was going to say. “You don’t know.” Rosenberg sighed in that way of hers that said as much as words ever could. “Kiddo, what I don’t know about you could fill a library. This is no different.” “So it could come out whenever it wants.” She shook her head, and not a single hair moved. He didn’t smell hairspray or any kind of product, so he had no idea how she achieved that. Sorcery? “It hasn’t in the three days you’ve been here.” “That we know of.” She scowled at him, her little gold glasses perched primly on the end of her nose. It was the only prim thing about her. “If it happened while you were sleeping there’d have been some proof, even if it was...

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Undertow, Part 15

15 – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out It was funny how you could be sleeping with a guy for a while and not really know him. Scott wasn’t cleared to even  skate, but there was a game that night and he wanted to talk to the guys before it, so Scott headed to the dressing room pre-game, and Holden ended up sitting in the section where players families, girlfriends/wives, and friends stayed. He ended up sitting next to  a wiry white haired old dude who turned about to be Zach’s grandfather, and a former hockey player himself. The old guy ended up raving about Scott as a team captain, saying he had all the makings of a great military leader, because he made sure all “his boys” felt like he liked them and trusted them, and would defend them in spite...

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