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Venus grinned when Sherlock told her how beautiful she looked, patted her arm, and said, "A little face work does wonders, ht in fifty or so years" She was flanked by Savich, Sherlock, and Veronica now They paused outside Vincent Willig’s rooson his creds "Anyone coent Savich All quiet Well, a lot of coood to hear it"
Savich grinned "Keep an eye out, Lane He’s certainly not up to try an escape, but you know the guy who hired hison patted the Beretta on his hip "I’ll be ready for hi was alone, no nurses, no techs, no doctors He seemed to be asleep, an IV line tethered to his left wrist, his breathing slow and even
Venus said, "Looks like he’s down and out I thought you only shot hiery on his wrist wasin The bullet nicked an artery And now he’s developed an infection He’ll be here for another couple of days"
Venus said, "As old as I as with anyone like this man, Dillon I do hope he doesn’t try to throttlelovely white teeth, her own, Savich knew She did look well south of eighty, fit and healthy "I know you don’t approve ofhere with me"
They both knew the truth was he’d hardly had a choice, excepthe didn’tVenus
Savich looked back at Veronica, who stood a couple of steps behind them, ready to leap forward to protect Venus, all her attention focused on Willig She’d told Savich she wished Venus hadn’t insisted on seeing Willig, but like him, she hadn’t et his attention, Venus, then ask you to come in Veronica, stick close to her"
Venus touched her hand to Veronica’s arm to keep her silent "Dillon, I’et hi, Venus strode into the sterile hospital roohtstand, her heels clicking on the linoleu slowly open his eyes as Venus walked brisk and confident toward hiht, he remembered, knew Savich could cause hi’s voice was low and scratchy and filled withI’m the person you tried to murder yesterday, but of course you know that"
"Why would I want to kill an ancient old broad like you? You look nearly ready to topple over without any help fromof so here?"
Venus stepped close and stared down at hi you’re not completely brainless"
"I’m not brainless, you old bat"
"Of course you are You couldn’t evenabout you, I know you’ve never done anything hile in your ot no morals, no center Offer you a buck and you’ll happily do whatever is asked"
"You’re three tie, at least Hey, I see you’re not alone You’re kind of pretty, you back there You the old bag’s granddaughter? Maybe you can couess not, given that frown on your face And you’ve brought those FBI guys with you, too He’s the one who tried to kill me, him and that broad with all the red hair What, is he afraid I’ll wrap my IV lines around your scrawny neck?"
"My neck is in fine shape, Mr Willig, so ood, either, like the rest of you As for your attackinglooked ready to spit He looked froht the old broad in here to soften ht her because she insisted She wants to ht," Venus said "Listen, Mr Willig, I’m not here to trade insults with you but to show you that you’re clearly on the wrong side If indeed you are not brainless, you know the FBI will find out who paid you, with or without your help You also know your telling us would speed things along To that end I ae hiainst you for what you tried to do to ive us the naht now, Mr Willig"
Venus paused a moment, leaned down "I will pay you ten thousand dollars if you give me the na ones? You gotta be kiddingto you, you’re richer than Rockefeller and uy who doesn’t wear a shirt How about aYou’re not worth a ive you a hundred thousand, not a penny h to pay off your lawyer"
Willig wheezed out a laugh "A hundred grand for a naive you the name--it was you, you crazy old bat, you hired me to make all those lazy relatives of yours sit up and take notice Are you going to pay , you idiot," Venus leaned down and s moaned, tried to raise his hand to shove her away, but the IV line held hi’s lawyer, Big Mort Kendrick, ca into the room--exactly on time Savich smiled It had taken only one well-tirand entrance, yelling, threatening, and bless his heart, here he was Mort yelled, "Lady, I saw you hit him! You can’t do that That’s physical torture I’ll sue you froh with you!"