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Javier’s grip tightened on the gun "This isn’t a el" He licked his lips and nodded at Cae to escape frohty Vincent Madano?"

Ca "How do you know about that?"

Javier grinned "I read it in the newspaper like everyone else"

"Bullshit"

"I have to say, I’m impressed," Javier went on "Vincent Madano is not a man you can just mess up and walk away"

"Hoell do you really know the about it all being a set up, that Sophia and her brothers, and possibly Javier were all in on it The exchange, the kidnapping – it was all for show All to get er

ItJavier crazy to have Caht that easily

"I know theun, shook the rain off of it and put it back in his waistband I exhaled in relief "But I suppose that’s neither here nor there at this point"

I was sure that Cao that easily Just how deeply was Javier tied to his ex-wife and her brothers and why? But Ca his attention back to the darkened faret Gus back," he said and pressed his lips together as if to prevent hi else

Javier watched hi the Jeep back into drive and returning us to the highway

We sat in unbearable silence as weanything I felt like ere a word away froive directions to where he had ditched Jose

Unfortunately it was a bit too close to Travis’s compound for comfort We pulled down a quiet residential street only a few blocks away, the leafy trees bloildly in the wind, the rain having thankfully dropped off The sound of helicopters buzzed in the distance

Javier eyed the sky and I asked, "Are those his or news choppers?"

He nodded subtly "They’re his The neouldn’t dare cover this"

"Turn right down here," Camden told him and we came down another street, this one hts that were few and far between This was still a well-to-do area, though the houses were sates and walls I did note that it was a dead-end road, whichwere to happen to us We couldn’t be too careful, not with the choppers circling in the distance, their spotlights occasionally lighting up the sky

"There she is," Cale seehts I could barely make out the shape of the car in the darkness

"She?" Javier asked, eyebrow cocked "Its naed "Guess she’s a cross-dresser"

Javier sighed, shaking his head in disgust, and pulled the Jeep up to it "Let’s make this fast"

We hopped out and it was only now that ere closer that I sahat Camden meant by "battered"

"Holy shit, Caht of the poor vehicle

"What the hell did you do to my car?" Javier yelled, his hands thrown up in the air

The GTO had the paint scraped off all along one side, the s on the driver’s side were all shot out, the driver’s side , the front was totally crunched up with only the right headlight intact

"Your car?" I asked Javier once I ed to look away fro the past?"

"Now’s not the tiue semantics," Camden interrupted us "She’s broken but she’s a survivor" He fished the keys out of his suit jacket and tossed theht the past h I didn’t know if it was for the state of the car or Camden’s comment, and made his way to the trunk He buet her open"

I was about to hurry over to him when Camden suddenly said, "Fuck"

I spun around and looked at hiood ar the sky The sound of the choppers had gotten louder and over the tips of the waving trees I could see the spotlight in the sky, the blades whirring