"Never really had the opportunity to take one," Gene said. "Not particularly interested, either." The concept didn't click with him. Look up 'workaholic' in the dictionary, you'd probably find his name.

Oh, he'd waited. He was good at waiting. Ten years of planning and waiting had gotten him what he'd dreamed of, once, before it all went right to hell in a handbasket.

"I suppose," he conceded. "I have you and Sheena, unless your workload would be too high." This is just in the abstract. Honest.