“Axl, I know.Mag, Auggie and Boone?”
“More of Hawk’s men, my boys.”
“Oh.”
“Mag’s my roommate.”
More surprise.“You have a roommate?”
“Tammy took off, he was looking for a place.Moved in.”
“Right.”
“Good guy,” he muttered.
“I’d hope you wouldn’t move an asshole in with you.”
Mo grinned at her.
“What kind of name is ‘Mag?’”she asked.
“Short for Magnusson, his last name.”
“Is his first name Kourtney?”
He started laughing again, and through it, said, “No.It’sDaniel.”
“Speaking of Daniel.Boone, last or first?”
Mo kept laughing.“First.Last name Sadler.And before youask, Auggie is Augustus Hero.And I’ll confirm, his last name is actually Hero.He gets the most shit.He says it’s Greek and since most women treat him likehe’s a god, I don’t figure he’s lying.Axl is Axl Pantera.”
“I was pretty sure Axl was a god,” she told him.“So ifAuggie is a god, then I can’t wait to meet him.”
“Axl’s a cat.”
“As in tom?”
“Exactly.”
That made Lottie laugh.
He pulled her closer so he could feel it better.
Lottie cuddled in and fell silent.
When she said no more for a while, he again urged, “Now goback to sleep.”
“What are yougonnado?”
“Hold you for a while.Then I might get up and hit the gym.But I’ll come back, probably before you get up again.”
“Okay.”
He waited for more, but that was all she said.
He felt her body relax and he knew when she fell asleep.
It was then he decided he’d make sure it was deep, lesschance to disturb her when she woke up.
