Chapter 5
“This is a very nice house,” Armand said after Tino gave him the tour. “A bit too open for my tastes. I like rooms that are rooms, but all in all, not bad. I suppose it’s sort of what I should have expected from you.”
Tino grinned. “Meaning, despite my real age, I’m a kid as heart?”
“I did call you that at one point.”
“No. You called me a boy, then told me to stop acting like one,” Tino replied as he took Armand into the area he was using as an office—at the foot of the back stairs going up to the second floor.
While Armand paused momentarily to look at Tino’s small collection of books, Tino turned on his computer and opened a new document, as well as the one with the short to-do list he’d made. Armand got the other chair and joined him.
“What first?” Tino asked. “Finding s
