Chapter 27

I held Josie in my lap, while Janey and Jeremiah squeezed the life out of Maury when he sat again and they crawled onto him. “So you guys just walking around the town today?” Sheila asked, smiling indulgently at her little monsters.

“Yeah. Things are slow at the motel, as you know, and I wanted us to spend some time together.” I glanced at Maury, who’d turned bright red. But he was smiling. I wondered what else would make him blush. Would he be flushed all over, I wondered?

“Well, I’m glad,” Sheila said. “Maury’s been mooning over you long enough.”

Maury gasped. “Sheila!”

His sister stuck out her tongue and hooked her arm around Leonard’s. “Hey, when it’s right, it’s right.” She gave her new beau a loving look, which he returned.

“We need to find a table,” Leonard said, breaking eye contact and searching the place for a spot.

“Take ours,” I replied. “We’re done, and this place is full, anyway.”

“Thanks,” he said.