It’s like she has the same boundless energy as the triplets.
Figures.
If I had to play housekeeper with all of the running around and bending and straightening and dusting and bed-making and towel-delivering, I’d be moaning and groaning and living in Epsom salt baths every night, and I say that as someone who keeps himself in good shape.
She moves back to the housekeeping cart on the sidewalk. “How has your first week been?”
I fall into step with her as she makes her way up the sidewalk. My job is to patrol the grounds and be available via radio if anyone needs anything. It’s cushy compared to my last security gig but more active than the occasional tasks I’ve been doing for another former military buddy who went into private detective work when he got out. That’s been mostly computer-based research or sitting in a car conducting surveillance.
Boring as shit.
“Quiet,” I tell her. “It’s been quiet.”
“One of the triplets said you used to do private security? Like that’s different from what you do here?”
Fuck.
She probably knows why I left Technique Group.
She probably knows more about me than I know about myself by now, actually. Or elsesheneeds a new security team.
I’d hope they know everything they can about me since I’m living with her.
“It’s different,” I confirm while she pushes the cart. I can see her notes and know she’s headed to nearly the end of this row, to a cabin on the left instead of on the right.
She slides another look at me.
I don’t explaindifferent.
“I heard the boss say there’s a big event next week,” she says.
“Yep.”
“Wonder who’s coming.”
“People.”
She glances at me, doing that half-squint thing that gave her away the other day. “Are you still mad about Friday night?”
“No.”
“Did I do something else to offend you?”
“No.”
“You’re simply always this aloof?”
“Yes.”
I could tell her at any time that I know who she is and demand to know what thefuckshe wants with the Sullivan triplets, but I haven’t had a good puzzle in too long.
I want to see if I can figure it out on my own before I confront her.
And then there are the other things that keep rolling through my mind.
Like that she’s normally in a position of power.
She can make things happen.
