i would not mind either option
Davis
what’s next? do we have a next book
Hájek
i vote for “Warm Up”
Davis
i’m with Hájek. friends to lovers is a strong trope
Marchetti
i’ll read whatever
Kowalski
that’s two votes “Warm Up,” and one Marchetti who’ll read whatever. Thompson?
Thompson
Hájek hasn’t been wrong yet
Mäkinen
sure
Berger
“Warm Up” it is
Davis
do we think Avi’s finished “Off the Record”
Kowalski
Davis. the man has a kitten named Kerimore. he finished it before any of us
Thompson
probably already reading “Press Pass”
Marchetti
everyone download “Warm Up.” let Hájek have this one
Hájek
thank you Marchetti. i believe the heart will be proven correct
Chapter 27 — ZAY
The facility parking lot is half-empty at seven fifteen. I pull into my usual space and sit with my hands on the wheel. Teo texted at six. Just one line.I’m here.Not asking if I’m still going to do it. Not wishing me luck. Just letting me know he’s on the other side of whatever happens next. I didn’t respond because the response is going to be walking through a door, and the door is thirty feet from where I’m sitting.
I check my badge, straighten my polo. The rollerball in my breast pocket with the firebird on the clip, weighted so your hand knows it’s holding a tool. He gave it to me because my facility pen kept skipping and he’d been watching me write with it since October. Two pens in black velvet. A gift that looked like professional gratitude and wasn’t, and I knew it wasn’t, and I used the pen anyway.
