“I didn’t recognize her when she came to the office on Friday, okay? The image of Cole’s girlfriend I had in my head didn’t remotely resemble her. Seeing her just knocked me on my ass a bit. That’s all.” Gus buried his face in his hands and growled, clearly not comforted by my half-assed reasoning. “Jesus. This is the last thing we need right now. She’s a kid.” “She’s twenty-eight. Hardly a kid.” “Said the thirty-eight-year-old man sitting across from me.”
