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Destiny brightened, war to the subject "It’ll look like soer"

"Well, that sucks, right there," Jon said

"Jesus"

"Don’t look atdevil’s advocate What if they call the cops or the FBI? I sure as shit would You’ll have the laarht"

"Which would be what?" he asked

"We’re brainstorot all the answers," she said

"You don’t have any answers"

Walker cut in "Where you going to keep her?"

Destiny considered the issue and then shrugged "I don’t know Maybe ato babysit the kid while the two of you walk around pretending to be innocent?"

"Maybe we’ll be gone by then"

"Then hoould you collect the dough?"

"We’d find a way," she said, irritated with his persistence

Jon said, "Why don’t you do the obvious? Tell them you have her stashed somewhere and you won’t turn her over unless they make it worth your while They don’t pony up, they’ll never see her again"

"I don’t think o for it," Creed said "So far he’s turned us down cold"

"Don’t ask for forty Ask for fifteen That’s enough to get you out of the country"

"Yeah, but what if they balk?" she asked "I mean, what if they tell us to take her and shove off Then what?"

"Then I guess you get your daughter back," Jon said

It was the weekend after that that their relationship changed The last teeks of June, Walker went to Hawaii on vacation with his folks With Walker gone, Jon was at loose ends The first couple of days he hung out at his place, watching TV On day three he decided it was tiet out He fired up his scooter and headed over to the Unruhs’, arriving just in ti out of the drive Looked like Patrick at the wheel, Deborah in the front seat, and Creed, Rain, and Sky Dancer in the back He wasn’t sure if Destiny ith them or not