He shoved the phone in his pocket, but as he reached the street, he changed his mind and took it back out. He stopped for a second to find the correct phone number, but as it rang, he started running again.
“Did you change your mind, honey? Do you need your mother?” Mona Hanson answered with a smile.
“Mom, listen,” Gus panted and sped up. “Something happened. I need you to delay the ceremony for an hour…” 4: Sinner, Repent!
As soon as Luca closed the door behind him, he toed off his shoes and stood with bare feet on the soft, long-haired rug taking up a big part of the floor of his office at the café. The rug he didn’t allow anyone to step on unless they removed their shoes first. He buried his toes in the green shag and sighed as he tried to imagine tendrils of calmness worming their way from the rug, up through his body.