Chapter 114

• “We’re together.” smiled and added, “Are you going to turn back into a grumpy old man, though? Because I wasn’t digging that.”
• I almost got offended at that, but just looking at her beautiful, glowing face stopped me in my tracks and I smiled instead. A real smile, from deep down in my battle-scarred old heart. Maybe I had been a bit uptight lately. Lately. Let’s be honest, for the last three years, since things had blown up between me and Clarissa, I thought. “Nope,” I said. “But less of the old.”
• We had coffee and then did the photographs for her feature. I’d wondered if we’d be able to keep our hands off each other long enough to get anything done, but we got really into it. Mary-Beth was very focused and it’s true – we did make a great team. We were upstairs in my apartment at the kitchen table when Kayla came in, dropped off by Clarissa’s PA again, just as Mary-Beth’s mom arrived with Maddy. I went down to the ground floor hallway to help her with the huge bag. (For a tiny kid, Maddy needed a lot of stuff.)