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“Wait. I’ve got questions.”
But she was gone, and the music left with her.
Deliberately, he opened the glass cover on the face of the clock, moved the hands, at random, to twenty after four.
He checked the music room anyway, then did a long circuit around the main floor, and another on the second before he went back to Sonya’s room.
She slept still. Both dogs opened their eyes to watch him as he went back to the bed. He pulled off his jeans, slipped into bed with her.
In sleep, she turned to him. Because she shivered, he drew her close.
He woke in the morning to see her pulling on a sweatshirt.
“Early riser.”
“Oh.” She turned and laughed. “Yeah, sorry. I thought I was quiet.”
“You were. I have to be an early riser. I’ve got court this morning.”
“Court? Do you really wear a tie with your flannel shirt, or an actual suit?”
“Yeah, an actual suit. It’s court.”
“I bet you look good in one. I’m going to let the dogs out, make coffee.”
“Right there, you’ve earned undying gratitude.”
“I’ll take it. There’s spare toothbrushes in the bathroom. Either you guys stocked them or Collin had them. Help yourself.”
“I will. Okay if I grab a shower? It’ll save me time at home.”
“It’s all yours. Come on, boys, let’s go outside.”
Theoutsidehad them both scrambling up and out, with her hurrying after.
She looked good in the morning, he thought. But then, to his eye, she always did. He thought it a shame he couldn’t talk her into the shower with him. But besides court, he needed time to tell her about three in the morning.
He could’ve spent a year in that shower, and gave Collin full marks on it.
When he’d dressed and walked downstairs, he found coffee waiting while she put pizza on plates.
“You want it warmed up?”
“Why?” He went for coffee first.
“That’s what I say. What’s wrong with us?”
“I’ve got time to sit down here with it. Do you have time?”
“Sure.” She sat at the counter with him. “When I go up, the bed’ll be made as perfectly as in the best hotel. I’ve gotten over the oddness of that, and appreciate the time saved.”
He jumped right in. “Do you know the old grandfather clock in the second parlor.”
“The second parlor is… Right, that one. With the big clock. I haven’t really used that room.”
“Have you wound the clock?”
“No. I should do that? I hadn’t thought about it.”
