My Stepbrother Is a Demon novel · Chapter 25 of 32
Chapter 25: Special Guest
"Why tell us?" I said.
"Courtesy." The broker turned his hat in his hands. "And because your mother's paper follows yours, Miss Beale. One minute past midnight for you. Two minutes past for her."
Ivo took one step toward the hood.
The broker held up a polite hand.
"I'd let you hit me, Ivo. But it would only dent the truck."
He put his hat on.
"I've watched a great many people try what you're trying," he said to me. "None of them brought hair spray."
Then the hood was empty, and the truck's suspension creaked.
We didn't go to bed.
We sat on the tailgate in the open garage with our shoulders touching and watched the sky over the Sound go from black to gray.
Ivo held my left hand the whole time, with his palm over the mark.
At two in the afternoon, I rode into the arena's loading dock in a heating company's van.
The first client's brother-in-law drove.
I wore one of his spare work shirts, the sleeves rolled four times, and a cap pulled low.
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