“That’s… a lot,” Leo said. “The tip, I mean.”
“Uh… lunch?”
And as Leo sat on the edge of the pool, dangling his legs into the cool water, watching this woman glide toward him with the hunger of someone who hadn’t been touched in months, he realized he’d never make that recording studio money delivering pizzas the usual way.
It was a sweltering Tuesday evening when Leo pulled his beat-up sedan into the cul-de-sac of Crestwood Hills. The pizza box on the passenger seat radiated a cheesy warmth that fogged the windows. He was twenty-two, a college dropout saving for a recording studio mic, and this was his third delivery of the night.
