* * * *
“You’re interested in him, aren’t you,” Gale said to Marcus a moment later.
“I think so,” Marcus replied. “Not that it’ll do any good. He’ll be gone as soon as this is over.”
“Nope,” Wally said. “He’s going to be working with me in the kitchen. Right, Jules?”
Jules nodded. “I don’t see why not, if it’s what he wants.”
Marcus hoped it was. He wasn’t certain why. All right, he was, but he doubted anything would come of it, whether Russ stuck around or not. At best, the younger man would see him as a friend he could count on when he had to. Once the police caught and arrested Howe, the need for Marcus’s support would disappear. Why he always fell for men who were unavailable, he had no clue. First Jules, and what a farce that had been. Now, Russ, if he really was falling for him.
