Rocking Out by A. A. Albright

Author:A. A. Albright [Albright, A. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 39979713
Published: 2018-04-26T05:00:00+00:00

16. An Offer I Can’t Refuse

Something was wrong, I thought as I woke up. Something was missing. I reached a hand to stroke my cheek. No slobber. I patted the bed next to me as I opened my eyes. Ah. There was no Wolfie – that would be why there was no slobber, then.

I sat up, rubbing the sleep from my eyes and looking around. Wolfie wasn’t the only one missing from my room. There was no Dizzy, either. And seeing as the clock on my bedside table told me it was ten in the morning, his absence was a bit worrisome.

‘Oh my stars!’ I kicked the covers off in a panic. ‘Why didn’t my alarm go off?’

I wasn’t sure who I was asking, but it was Max who answered. There he was, standing in my open doorway with a tray in his hands, Wolfie by his side and Dizzy perched on his shoulder. ‘It didn’t go off because I turned it off,’ he said, approaching the bed. ‘And before you argue, I’ve already cleared it with Finn. He says you’re more than entitled to a day off.’

He approached the bed, pushing me back down and setting the tray on my lap. ‘Now eat,’ he said. ‘Every last morsel.’

I looked down at the food on the tray. There was a plate piled with tofu scramble, fried mushrooms, tomatoes and toast. Next to it there was a smaller plate with a jam doughnut. There was a glass of orange juice and a cup of tea as well. But best of all – or at least to Dizzy – there was a small bowl filled with fresh mango slices. ‘You made all of this?’

‘Well, I didn’t make the doughnut. Melissa left a big box of them downstairs this morning,’ he said. ‘She had to rush off, though. She’s got some big important meeting.’

‘Oh.’ I had no doubt that the important meeting was with Christy Dempsey, the woman who would be prosecuting Mack and Bryce if they ever went to trial. As much as that disturbed me, I decided that Max was right – I needed a day off to recharge. And how better to spend it than by eating all of this food as quickly as I could and then asking if there were seconds?

Max kicked off his shoes and sat down on the bed. ‘We haven’t made each other breakfast for a while. I figured it was about time.’

I put the mango on my bedside table and watched Dizzy tuck in, then I picked up my fork and dug into the tofu scramble. For those of you who think tofu scramble sounds like the worst thing in the world, just wait until you move in with a vegan weredog with awesome cooking skills. No one cooks tofu like a weredog. It was amazing. Everything on the plate was. I was halfway through it all when I asked (through a mouthful of food, naturally) ‘Where’s Emily?’

Max gave me a rueful smile. ‘Yeah, she’s em … she’s finally gone home.

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