Steady Madness
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She releases me and carefully turns me around to face the other end of the hall. “So does he,” she says, pointing toward Skinny Drake standing a few feet away. “Complete shit at showing it sometimes, but it’s there.”
His eyes are wet and swollen. Face beet red. So obvious he’s been crying, and he’s working so damn hard to not to show it. He steps back, picking something up off the floor behind him.
He’s holding a box. A box I never thought I’d see again.
I cover my mouth. Joe holds on to my waist.
“We found it sitting in a beaten-up Porsche by your house,” Joe says. “Jonathan must have left it there. Not sure what that means, if he had a moment of not being a prick or what, but my son said that box means something to you.” Joe looks me over. “Can see that it does.”
It’s the box Jonathan brought to my house the other morning. The box that is packed with items I cannot buy with all the money in the world. Items I’m guessing will come to mean a lot to me very soon.
The things in that box hold my best chance at remembering.
Of unlocking the life I had with my parents.
I don’t bother fighting the flood of tears.
“Hi, Teddy,” my brother says.
“Hi, Skinny Drake.”
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Also by Mike McCrary
Remo Cobb Series
Remo Went Rogue (Book 1)
Remo Went Down (Book 2)
Remo Went Wild (Book 3)
Remo Went Off (Book 4)
Steady Teddy Series
Steady Trouble (Book 1)
Steady Madness (Book 2)
Stand Alone Books
Genuinely Dangerous
Getting Ugly
About the Author
Mike McCrary’s been a screenwriter, a waiter, a securities trader, dishwasher, bartender, and an unpaid Hollywood intern. He’s quit corporate America, come back, been fired, promoted, been fired again. Currently, he writes about questionable people who make questionable decisions.
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Acknowledgments
I say the same thing with each book and I will continue saying it until it stops being true. You can’t do a damn thing alone, so I’d like to thank the people who gave help and hope during this fun and self-loathing little writing life of mine.
The list of those people is insanely long and keeps growing by the day. The idea of leaving someone out and listening to them bitch later is a little more than I can take on right now.
Let’s just say I am very thankful to all of you. Each one of you have helped me more than you can possibly know. I am truly grateful to those people who have helped me out and talked me off the ledge more times than I can count. This is me being honest, no bullshit here. Hopefully you know who you are.
Also, if you’re reading this right now you deserve a big-ass thank you from me as well. Even if we’ve never met, you’ve been cool and kind enough to grab a copy of my book and give it a read and that, my dear friends, deserves the biggest ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of them all.
Thanks, good people.
Copyright © 2018 by Mike McCrary
Cover by Stuart Bache
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