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And I have a better idea

"John When you see my Nav pull up, drive around the block until I tell you it’s okay to coot it?"

"Cain, that’s not the best--"

"Got it?"

"What the hell happened to you last night?" Dan’s face pinches together as he stares at nac that sits on ht, that’s for sure," Iabout my black eye Ronald Sullivan was faster than I’d expected The fker got one good hit in the second he opened the door I probably should have ain, Nate shouldn’t have been there in the first place He saw er seat as I was about to pull away

Dan ible as he shifts my suit--strewn over the couch--and takes a seat "Look, I don’t have a lot of time and I sure as hell shouldn’t be here in the first place I could lose h, he reaches back to pull out a white folder that’s tucked into the back of his pants, concealed "Teeks ago, I opened et my newspaper and found an envelope with o?"

"Yeah" Sheepish eyes flicker to me "It was from Charlie"

I’hme now?"

"Relax, Cain Just" His hand moves to rub the frown out of his forehead "Sit down" As easygoing as Dan is, he kno to pull his authoritative mask on I do as asked because I can tell by the stubborn set of his jaw that he won’t continue otherwise "I didn’t knohat to make of it at first To be honest, I was freaked out Ioff envelopes at ht? I only joined the DEA a feeeks ago Eventually, though, I opened it" He pauses "It was a note fro into a Sa large quantities of heroin into Miami"

"Sam Arnoni?" The Sam that I talked to that day on the phone?

Heroin?

Fuck, Charlie!

"Yeah There were some other names included First names: Bob, Eddie, Manny Street na into this Sauy and" Dan’s head falls back "Cain, you have the worst fking luck in the world"

I feel htly "What is that supposed toSam’ Arnoni has been on the FBI’s radar for years, but they can’t nail hih the folder, he pulls out a sether with a paper clip He tosses it onto itiround up--to make it easy for him to launder his money and hard for the Feds to catch him Plus, he’s sanization s, no Godfather power-trip crap