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I had always liked that Nickie/Dickie looked like what he was: a clean-cut, corn-fed midwestern boy A smokin&039; hot midwestern boy, if I may be so uncouth

Once upon a tiet naked and ether But e first met, he sawstory involving feral vaarlic) And after he ht of me at all

Hmmm I wasn&039;t sure I liked the wayAnd you&039;re still irked that Nick-Dick never ever saw you in the way you were accustoreedy, was he super-rich in this ti on a cop&039;s salary? Which was just pitiful, by the wayA good executive assistant e homicide detective, and admin staff were rarely shot at

I had it in my head that N-Dick was the heir to the John Deere tractor fortune, but he didn&039;t talk about it much inrich andrich, I wasn&039;t all that curious about other people&039;s money In any timeline

I can hear it now: you&039;re not curious about money because you&039;ve always had so-my mom was a teacher, for cripe&039;s sake-but they never wondered if there&039;d be onna apologize for being born into the upper-s to apologize for

Besides, there was always the chance I had Nick/Dick mixed up with soot rasp the D-Nick by the horns There wasn&039;t a subtle or classy way to ask, so"Are you rich right now?"

D-Nick gasped "You remembered! I am im-pressed, oh attentive undead queen with the short-terthe last of the ood for you"

"That&039;s a lie and you know it"

It helped that he was rich, which is why I&039;d asked; Jess had been screening gold-diggers out of her dating pool since before she graduated high school In fact, if Nickie/Dickie hadn&039;t been rich, I wondered if their relationship would have coine what it would be like to have guys only want you for your uys only wantedburden

"If we could stay focused," Sinclair suggested, so I quit thinking about Nick&039;s blue-with-flecks-of-gold eyes, his lean and powerful build (shoulders! yowza), and the way he didn&039;t hateon track," Marc agreed "Jesus! How lame are we?"

"Don&039;t take the Lord&039;s name in front of my vah Sinclair&039;s expression was still frozen in s rin, "it&039;s a sin"

"Right! I would have reing door whooshed open Which was strange, becausedoors open wasn&039;t Tina&039;s style I&039;d been so busy yakking I hadn&039;t heard anyone co down the hall

"You&039;re back"

I looked up and assu oal for some time, freak-out induced seizures, woo-hoo! Next, probably e Then I&039;d probably needto be a wonderful week

Standing in the kitchen doorway, looking rumpled and pale and not dead, was one of my dead roommates, Garrett

And the last ti himself

Did I mentioned he&039;d succeeded in spectacular fashion?