Heart-Shaped Box (Claire Montrose Series)

by April Henry

Dante laughed. “I know a million Jessicas in New York. They all worry too much about what people will think about them to be who they are. And you, well, you talk to waiters and women in supermarket lines and strange dogs. I kind of like that in a girl.”

  “Woman,” Claire corrected Dante. “I’m a woman.”

  “Sir, we’re boarding,” the flight attendant called out.

  “Don’t I know it,” Dante said, before dropping a final kiss on Claire’s lips and then turning on his heel.

  IBCNU

  Vanity License Plate Key

  -CSHFLW = Negative cash flow (many states fill in any space on a vanity plate with a dash)

  2N2R4 = Two and Two Are Four

  2Q2STOM = Too Cute To Stay Home

  AMBER = Amber

  ANIL8 = Annihilate

  AWAWEGO = Away We Go

  BWHO UR = Be Who You Are

  BYTDAPL = Bite the Apple

  GON4EVR = Gone Forever

  HEBGBZ = Heebie Jeebies

  HE WON = He Won

  HIHO AG = Hi Ho, Silver (AG is the periodic table designation for silver)

  IBCNU = I’ll Be Seeing You

  ICUNIYQ = I see you and I like you (said in an Elmer Fudd accent)

  ML8ML8 = I’m Late, I’m Late (a perfect plate for a white rabbit)

  MR E = Mystery

  OPNYDE = Open Wide

  PB4UGO = Pee Before You Go

  RD4MOR = Ready for More

  RKNROL - Rock and Roll

  RUCNNE1 = Are You Seeing Anyone?

  TAGURIT = Tag, You’re It

  TIH5 HO = Oh, Shit (seen in a rearview mirror)

  TOUCHE = Touche’