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"Dry cleaners," Dawg finally growled "And I don’t think you called us here to discuss reen eyes, sea green, crinkling at the corners with ’s been a hair upset over the laundry Crista put her foot down over the wrinkled, hole-ridden T-shirts he likes wearing to the store She won’t let hirunted as Natches slanced back toward the hotel
"That call you hed as he addressed Natches again "What the hell is going on?"
Natches turned back to hi oing to split your head open for you"
Dawg grunted and it was his turn to s out of your houseboat, for solitude over that darown so about you"
Natches’s nostrils flared as anger began to churn inside hi He didn’t need his damned advice or his snide-assed comments, which prettyhim names Because he refused to listen to either
"Cranston’s running another op in town," he told the other two er take hold The rest of the accusation he ignored coht now He’d spent a lot of years trapping that eut any it there kept breathing certain and Natches’s conscience clear
"What the hell does that fat little fucker want?" Dawg straightened and glanced toward the hotel with obvious animosity "Is he in there?"
"No Not yet Miss Chaya Greta Dane is there right now, and if ht now froured out we’re onto her?"
"How did you find out?" Roatching Natches
Natches hated it when Roatched hi Natches didn’t want seen
"Anonyrimaced "And that ain’t no joke A call tome know she had hit the county line and was here for DHS If Cranston’s lost ht have to kill hi" Dawg rubbed at his clean-shaven jaw as he glanced toward theof Chaya’s rooo by the name Greta, but hell if that name suited her With her multihued blond hair and exquisite features, she was as exotic as a tropical flower Chaya suited her The nahts, as he jacked off to the ie of her in his head, the name sounded like a prayer as he spilled his release into his hand
"I’ve not heard anything from my contacts either," Rowdyto town"
Whichwhatever he was up to very close to his chest And that was a very bad thing When that rabid little bastard kept his ht of that had hient, but her heart wasn’t in it Natches had seen that the year before She hadn’t wanted to be in Soaned," he ht overhead "Turned the papers in just after the op here hat I heard"
He was unaware of the curious looks his cousins gave hily, but all his cousin had in reply was a brief shrug
Natches never cared enough about anyone except his cousins, their wives, his sister, and Rowdy’s father, Ray, to check up on the He often claimed when it ca, because it was too da up
He hadn’t been nearly so ah He had placed her in danger, and that had pissed Natches off Just as Cranston had placed all their asses in the fire
"What do you need frohtening as it always did whenever he stared at the other
Natches was al for a while, but sometimes he feared that cold had taken full hold of him, and chilled hi at the question, as though he either didn’t care, or wasn’t certain what he needed
"Doesn’t little Lucy Moore work here?" Dawg asked then "She works registration, doesn’t she?"
Natches nodded at the question Lucy was a third cousin on his irl, but soood She had put Chaya in the room he wanted her in, but she had been curious as to why he wanted her there
"Then just wait till she leaves and slip into her room Check her shit out and see if she’s as anal as she used to be with her notes," Dawg suggested
Natches glared at hi Those notes, if she has theht in that laptop and none of us are hackers"
"Slip in and seduce the inforood at that shit Get her to talk, then send her ass ho they didn’t know Chaya didn’t have a home
"What the hell is up with this, Natches?" Rowdy questioned him then "You knew her before she came here; don’t deny it Now she’s back with no clear reason why Maybe she’s back to see you"
Natches shook his head slowly No, she wasn’t back to see him He came with memories, and Natches knew exactly how that worked Those memories were too painful, and they were rife with too ly touch them with a ten-foot pole