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"Yep" I spoke to fill the silence "They spring up around the border towns"
"I haven’t been there since I was eighteen I guess every guy in Texas checks it out once If you decide to go for reasons I probably don’t want to know, keep a tight hold on your wallets, watch for pickpockets, and stay away froet busy until ten and the party runs till six in theYou’ll findbribe money if you expect answers"
Was Chance’s e us in this direction? Maybe she got out of the life when she got pregnant with him Well, the purse seemed to be a dead end otherwise, and I didn’t knohat to et back to work now" I saw about a hundred questions in Jesse’s eyes, but I didn’t care to answer the for the door, I didn’t see if Chance followed ht up with me before I left the police station "Don’t keep stuff fro?"
"I’m not sure," I admitted "I just heard the words when I touched the inside of the purse It sounded like your mom’s voice"
He frowned as we pushed open the door and stepped out into a blindingly bright Novee?"
"No It’s strange"
Chance kne backward that was If an itee, it captured whatever its last handler experienced, ift in order to unlock it This sounded like histo record her words I didn’t kno that was even possible, but if she could do it, why didn’t she saya tired ss, but I don’t think anything could surprise me now My mother kno to summon demons and she’s apparently connected to Boys Town as well So what’s our nextto look cool as a Long Island iced tea even as sweat trickled down the slad he’d decided to let the relationship stuff go
"You’re asking me?" I projected astonishment "Then I want soot in the car "Mexican or Italian?"
Why did I smile because he offered the choice between o Japanese; he loved sushi and I couldn’t stand the stuff, except for California rolls Chance said those didn’t count, though
The hot seatabout Olive Garden Italian or good Italian?"
"I liked Johnny Carino’s when I ate there with my mom, but it is a chain, not a dive with red checkered tablecloths"
I happen to harbor a soft spot for dives and the folks who operate the more authentic then Surprise me"
When he pulled up outside a brown brick building on McPherson Avenue, I gaped at the wagon wheels outside the Cotulla Style Pit Bar-B-Q "Home of the world-faht"
"We could coave him a look as we pushed into the di on, a cheerful blend of Western and Mexican decor The place smelled deliciously of barbeque and n
A hostess sat us doith two menus, and I decided on the mixed parrillada with nopales and beans He ith chicken chalupas Chance also ordered us a pitcher of sangria, which earned him points If he wanted them Did he? I put that complication aside as the waitress departed
"We need to figure out the connections here Once we do that, I think we’ll have a good idea where to find your mom" Easier said than done "This may seem like a stupid question, but did you uson are still locked up? Even so, theyfor them on the outside"
Those two topped the list of people anted to hurt Chance and uson was a stone-cold killer for Jesus He claiels told him that people he hunted would unleash the end tis up yet He wouldn’t say a word about what that had to do with the child he’d stolen, however Even while he stood in the courtroo his sentence, he claimed divine inspiration
Over and over, he’d said, "God will deliver me No earthly bars can hold me"
No matter how the prosecution questioned him, he never wavered froust, and there hispers of an insanity plea
Sometimes I still dreamed about his eyes, as if he could sootten I’d finallythat he lurked around every corner, though Mostly Except on really dark nights
In his egocentriset to tell hi the woman that she wanted him And he’d very nearly been the end of me
As far as I knew, they were both in prison
If they aren’t
Chance paled, both hands wrapping around his glass, and for a ht be sick Then he knocked back his drink as if it hiskey "I should’ve found out first thing It never occurred to h my mom Oh, Christ"