Chapter 7
Now
After his brief conversation with Marnie Hall, Larry spent the rest of Monday checking his email whenever possible. Unfortunately, he couldn’t do that on his phone, and for once in his life, he really wished he had an iPhone or an Android, something he could check surreptitiously between customers at the bookstore. Instead he had to wait agonizing lengths of time until his manager Andrew slipped into the back room, and then he could commandeer the store’s computer.
With one ear tuned for incoming footsteps so he wouldn’t be caught, Larry would open another browser window, careful not to close out the one they used to search their inventory database, or he’d have to log back in, and he probably wouldn’t be able to do that before Andrew returned to the front counter. In the
