First Kill All the Lawyers (2013)
“It was an interesting beginning, Sam thought, not that she hadn’t heard some doozies in her time. “Shoot,” she’d said. “I’ll admit I’m curious.”
“How old are you?”
“In the 35-to-40 ozone. None of your business.”
“See, I knew you were younger than Lois.”
“Lois?”
“My wife.”
“Lois doesn’t like you sleeping with younger women?”
“Nope. Makes her crankier than a prom queen with a fresh zit on her nose.”
“Well, that’s one,” Sam had remarked.
“Two, I saw you across the room at a meeting last week, and I promised myself I’d never sleep with anybody in the program.”
“Which one?”
“Which one what?”
“Which A.A. meeting?”
“The one at St. Philip’s.”
“I didn’t see you.”
“I know.” He’d pulled his mouth down at the corners, run one hand through the first crew cut she’d seen since the late fifties, and with the other hauled up his sagging pants. “I was sitting over in smoking, hiding my stupefyingly good looks under a bushel, ’cause I didn’t want you to get distracted from the qualifying speaker.”
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