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"You said you didn’t want the bitch dead," Danny Massaro, Mario Constantino’s cousin,thepaper, irritated as hell with the two buffoons who’d botched the job "We wouldn’t have bothered trying to bring her in alive if you hadn’t ordered us not to kill her But she shot Carino on the trail," Danny insisted

"You’ve tolda hard look at Danny "You both knew she was ar like her mother You should have handled it better"

Mario had two cousins Two Danny and Ferdinand Massaro And although Danny, the younger of the two brothers, was loyal as could be, Ferdinand was the one who could be counted on to get a job done right Too bad Mario had pissed hi had stolen a hell of a lot of ot aith that without paying for it big time He had a reputation to maintain, after all He just hadn’t realized how hard Ferdinand would take it Hell, family loyalty was supposed to take priority over some damned broad

"Alicia’s a bounty hunter now If she catches sight of me, she can arrest me and turn et the jump on Danny When Mario didn’t respond, Danny shoved his hands in his pockets, his action whenever he was stuuy? Can’t we kill him?"

"The artist?" Mario snorted "Lover boy?" He shook his head "The wouy, he’ll disappear soon enough One way or another If he’s smart, he’ll leave and live another day If he’s not…" Mario shrugged and looked back at the paper, reading an article about a drunk driver who had ripped out forty feet of fence on a local ranch

Nothing noteworthy in the area Not since killing the Greiston wo at the same location today, if anyone had been aware of it

He really should have killed Danny and Carino after they’d botched the job of ht next to the trail, where hikers could find her, washer lover at the falls? Double the stupidity Yeah, he’d wanted it done, but discreetly Idiots

He sighed, opened the paper to the crossword puzzle, and laid the paper down on the coffee table, then pulled a pen out of his pocket "Has Carino gone home?"

"Tucker took him back to Denver so Doc can patch hi any word of it"

Mario nodded and read: One Across: Lupus, four letters He wrote: wolf

"What now?" Danny asked

Mario looked up at him "You said the artist met with her in the woods"

Danny balled his fists in his pockets "Yeah, she must have planned to rendezvous with him there I saw his truck parked near her car in the lot, but I didn’t see any sign of hiht Carino in Later, I found both Alicia’s and her lover’s vehicles parked at her hotel They were still there when you told le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>