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“You left out the first part. I started that sentence by saying you’re a good agent.”
“The second half was truer.”
“If nothing else, I hope that, by working with me, you realize the first part was what mattered.”
“It does, Magnet, and I appreciate it.”
“Ready for the movie?” he asked when I covered my yawn.
“Sure.”
I fell asleep almost as soon as I closed my eyes, and when I woke sometime later, Magnet was zonked out too. Sweetly, though, his hand still rested on my foot.
“Ugh,I am too old for this,” Magnet groaned.
I opened my eyes and saw the sunrise on the horizon. “Did you sleep here?” I said, patting the sofa’s back.
He nodded. “I must’ve been more tired than I thought.”
I checked the time. “It isn’t quite zero seven hundred. Why don’t you lie down and see if you can get more rest?”
“I should do,” he said, standing and stretching his arms above his head.
“Don’t do that when we’re out in public.”
“Put my arms over my head?”
“You do not have the torso of a man old enough to be my father.”
He chuckled and mussed my hair when he walked by. “Get some more rest yourself,kiddo.”
Rather than doing as he suggested, I crept into the bedroom, relieved to see Ehren wasn’t yet awake. I grabbed a new outfit from my bag and took a shower. When I came out, she was still asleep, so I returned to the living room to get set up to help Magnet don his disguise. I was stunned to find him out there as well.
“No luck going back to sleep?” I asked.
“Be thankful you’re not really married to Rogue. He snores like a grizzly bear.” He motioned to two cups on the counter. “I wasn’t sure if you preferred coffee or tea, so I made both.”
“That was very sweet. However, I’m surprised you weren’t aware.”
“What do you mean?”
“I’m Swiss.”
“And?”
“We are among the biggest consumers of coffee on the planet. Not to mention, almost three-quarters of the world’s coffee trade happens in Switzerland.”
“I had no idea. Truly.” He picked up the cup closest to me. “How do you take it?”
“Black, thanks.”
He made a face.
“Let me guess. You’re a tea drinker, and you use cream and sugar?”
“How do we not know this about each other? We traveled to the States together, and we’ve spent weeks at the command center.”
I shrugged. “I suppose we’ve never met up in the morning.”
