Shadows and First Blood
He was stacking receipts with the careful attention of a man who preferred order to blood pressure meds.
“Morning,” I said back, shrugging off my coat. “We good on the register paper? We ran low last week.”
“In the cabinet,” he said, and then, without looking up, “Middle shelf. Third box back.”
I smirked. “Show-off.”
I went to the middle shelf, third box back, and—of course—it was there. The cat, Crown, watched me from her throne on the front table, tail flicking like a metronome scoring my sins. I reached for the box, dragging it forward—and the box to its left nudged itself politely aside to make room.
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