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Rod scrunched up his face, his eyes darting to Jesse and then back to the ducks "I wasn’t there, man I just heard about it later from Carl, okay? He was the only one who made it"

Greasy Beard "What did you hear?" Jesse asked

"Souys were asked to do a little freelance uy Lee used to know," Rod said Lee Harrison was the president of the et into business back in the day, and figured the prez still owed hih" Rod gave a little shrug "Then again, they don’t tell runt"

Jesse made an effort not to let the surprise show on his face The va this show--Scarlett’s Count Asshat--had known Lee Harrison? Or had he just pressed Lee into thinking that? But no, Jesse had a hard ti a scenario in which the Count just knocked on Lee’s door and ically pressed hiot a name?"

"If he does, they never told h?"

Rod nodded, and Jesse felt a little rush of relief At least Molly hadn’t been betrayed by one of her sisters, on top of everything else "Which business did he help Lee get into?" Jesse asked Fros rated pretty low on the crime spectrum these days, but "back in the day" could have been when they were still fairly violent

"Whores,his voice low He stirred idly at the ice creaummy bears beached at the bottom "Before my time"

Jesse felt excite back to prostitution "Street girls? Call girls?"

"Nah, like, a cathouse What’s the word?" Rod paused, tilting his head "Brothel!" he said triu white couple with two Yorkshire terriers glanced nervously toward their bench, then hurried along the path "He was kind of like Lee’s silent partner at the tiirls and decided to film them instead They must have been friendly about it, because Lee said yes when the guy asked for this favor"

"That’s a pretty big favor," Jesse re Lee?"

Rod shook his head, but then hesitated "I got the sense--this is just a feeling, you understand--thatback into business together, here in the Valley Lee see in the works"

Jesse felt a chill Another brothel? No, thata leap: for all he knew, Count Asshat just wanted to keep paying Lee for muscle He pushed Rod for more details, but the other"Anyway," Rod went on, "who knohere that stands now, since it all went FUBAR today I knew theun They weren’t expecting that bitch to have a gunslinger with her"

Jesse saw no reason to er "What were they expecting?"

"Like, a girl in her ht show up, and they were supposed to scare her Tie her up and give her to the scary Russian chick That was it"