“Um,” Reid said looking around nervously, “Yeah, I did not do this.“

“Do what?” Zooey said in awe, “Pillage Jayne Mansfield’s castle?”

“You’d think that right,” he said with a laugh, “To be honest, this isn’t exactly my apartment. I sort of inherited it.”

“From who?” Zooey said curiously, “You had some relative that was a Hollywood starlet from the golden era?”

“My grandmother,” Reid said grimly.

“Okay, that explains a lot, but what I’d like to know is how you inherit an apartment,” Zooey said demandingly.

“Well, she owned it, and I was the only person left around to give stuff to when the time came, so here we are,” he said, moving farther down the hallway.

“Reid?” Zooey said quietly.

“Yeah?”

“You’re my hero,” she said earnestly, playing with a pink tassel that hung from a light fixture.