The Missing Page (Page & Sommers #2)

by Cat Sebastian

The more Leo thought about it, the less he liked it. Leo had read this detective story and he had seen the film and knew that when you made the heirs gather together, they immediately started putting exotic poisons into one another’s tea. They simply couldn’t help themselves.

Wendy had an extremely flexible and communitarian approach to rationing, which involved a steady stream of goods changing hands for what Wendy insisted wasn’t technically money or ration tickets. At this point, Leo was pretty sure that subverting the rationing system was the only thing keeping her from running drugs or arms or taking control of the criminal underworld. “When you get arrested, I shan’t do anything about it,” he lied.

It made something ache in Leo’s heart, made him long for something he preferred not to even think about. It made him wonder what it would be like to belong to a person, to belong to a place and a home the way these two belonged to one another, the way they so obviously belonged here.

me do that, all right?” “Yeah,” Leo said, speaking the words into the wool of James’s jumper. “I still feel like I’m a bad bargain.” “Leo. I feel like I’m a bad bargain too. I think that’s just how love works. Well, for neurotic people, at least. Sometimes you look at me like I’m marvelous and I think you must not have realized I’m a ball of nerves, and that’s on a good day.”