"Oh damn," Darcy said, laying down the pen to lean one elbow on the counter and rest her chin in her hand, attentive. "Like what? Don't hold out on me now!" Darcy wasn't usually one that paid much attention to gossip, but this wasn't really gossip, was it? More a sharing of facts, she had to think, which made all of it totally okay . Darcy had to know what she was up against, after all.