And, of course, everyone needs Burns now and then —” He stopped talking abruptly, glancing uneasily around him, as if he’d said something he shouldn’t have. His eyes rested briefly on the tall redhead in the back, who was still staring at me. “Might as well get that out of the way,” the small dark man at Nate’s elbow said. Nate shot a suspicious glance across our little line.
