Chapter 9“You sleep better with him around,” said Big Frank as he added whole coffee beans to the smoothie he was concocting.
Dane stiffened, somehow offended by this, although Sean couldn’t see how. Maybe it was the lack of coffee. Sean was having a hard time forcing his mood to be decent after being awake well over an hour with no hot mug. When Big Frank passed him a smoothie he took it and drank immediately.
“Only woke me up once.” Big Frank handed Dane a smoothie, too, although the Decrypter seemed disgusted by it. “Almond and coffee. One of my personal favorites.” He paused. “You need sleeping pills?”
Sean suspected Big Frank was referring to the time Dane had jerked awake in the middle of the night. If so, Dane had been right—the man’s hearing was very, very good. Sean had woken u
