Chapter 113
He returned to the checkout and paid for the candles.
“Do you have matches?” the woman asked as she wrapped the candles in sheets of paper to keep the glass holders from breaking and then double bagged them.
“No, I don’t.” He looked around. A line was starting to form behind him.
“Then you’ll need these.” She dropped a book of matches into the bag.
“How much—”
“Don’t worry about it. These are to go with the cigarettes.” There was a wall of them right behind her. She beamed at him. “You two have a great day now, y’hear?”
“Thank you, ma’am.” Mopp smiled back at her, relieved she wasn’t going to expose him to a homophobic diatribe on the day he was going to make love with Josh for the first of many times. “You too.”
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JOSH PUT THE bags on the floor of the passenger compartment. Lube, condoms, flavored lube… They were really going to do this.