"I'll head down to the lobby and get a
cab. You just tell me who I have to see what all I have to do on the way, okay?"
Cade instantly opened the landing door and stepped into the hallway. The
door to the room on his left opened and a guy with a suitcase in one hand and a
cell phone to his ear hurried out of the room and down the hall.
'Damn,' thought Cade, suddenly far too aware of a myriad of sounds in the
hall. 'What other changes could he expect?'
Mandi's idea that he might need supervision made more sense as he tried
vainly to filter out some of the useless noise around him. Training was what
he'd need.
As he approached his room, he stopped walking as he heard Mandi say, "Ed has
been a bit difficult, Andrea. More than a bit difficult, in fact. I hate to say
it, but converting him may have been a mistake."
A familiar woman's voice responded, "Oh, he didn't strike me as being all
that terrible. You heard what he said about my eyes, didn't you? And the way he
said it? And he was so polite when he excused himself and moved on. He called me
'ma'am'. Jerks don't act like that, Mandi."
"Uh, huh.
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