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I bite my inner cheek. Are we really going to do this? The small talk? The quick catch-up?
“It’s great,” I lie. “Doing really well, actually.”
He gives me an ambiguous look like he knows more than he’s letting on, but he says nothing to confirm it. “Good.”
“I’d ask how you’re doing with whatever, but I honestly have no idea what you do anymore,” I say, taking a sip from my beer, quickly shifting the attention away from my own failures. “Except for exposing sex scandals in Washington.”
He winces. “You heard about that?”
“I might have.”
He looks down to hide his embarrassment. “Hey, the old bastard had it coming.”
“I agree. So, is that all you’ve been up to? Punishing horrible men who prey on innocent people?”
“Mostly, I guess. Odd jobs, here and there.”
“You must keep awfully busy, then.”
“Well, what can I say? Not all heroes wear desert camo.”
I catch myself from staring too hard through his spectacles and getting drawn into his bright, green eyes. I’ve forgotten how easy it was.
“Um…” I blink. “So, Fox. He’s in Japan.”
“Yeah!” he says, jumping at the chance to pick apart someone else’s life. “With Dani — and can we talk about that for a second?”
“I know!” I gasp. “They actually got together!”
He shakes his head with wide, stunned eyes. “Of all the things—”
“That could possibly happen — I know!”
“I never thought for a second they had any chance of ending up together.”
“Neither did I.”
“First, the guy comes back from the dead,” he says, holding up his thumb. “Which was pretty much the weirdest phone call I’ve ever received.”
“He called you?” I ask, leaning forward.
“Yeah.”
“When?”
He looks up, thinking fast. “Uhh… when he got to LA, he called from the airport.”
My jaw drops. “That fucker told you first?”
Boxcar laughs and takes another drink. “Fox loves me more than you,” he teases.
I try not to react to his laughter. “You’re just loving this, aren’t you?”
“A little bit.”
I take a slow sip of my beer. “He came into my shop,” I recall, smiling. “Out of the blue, no warning. Just walked in like everything was normal. Like he hadn’t been dead for the last two years.”
“That must have been traumatic.”
