Chapter 46

“At work. You know Mr. Jackson looks after his crew and the neighbors.”

“I was so worried about you!” She rushed across the room and threw herself into his arms.

Ah. That was sweet of her. He kissed the shell of her ear.

She turned her head and whispered, “Take me to bed? Please?”

Mopp was hungry, but man didn’t live by bread alone. He stepped back and smiled at her, and she took his hand and tugged him along after her.

4

THE NEWS CAME out that Tad Jackson and Rush Dalton were engaged and planned to be married before the end of the year. It wouldn’t be legal—Georgia wasn’t a state that recognized gay marriage, didn’t even want to recognize the fact that gays existed—but Tad and Rush wanted to commit to each other.

Mopp thought it was wonderful and amazing. At one time, he would have been a little jealous of how much they loved each other, but not now.

Now here he was, with the prettiest girl in Savannah as his girlfriend. God, he was a lucky so and so.