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“Sounds like a plan, McMurphy, but I actually have a better idea,” I said as I turned to walk toward the car

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“How about we don’t meet up, but we just tell everyone we did?” I said as I clion

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CHAPTER 20

VIDA GOMEZ KEPT THE stolen Cadillac Escalade at a steady sixty as they rolled east on the San Bernardino Expressway in El Monte, east of don LA

They were nearing their exit when aroared past out of nowhere Completely startled, she cursed violently as a dozen black-leather-cladJap bikes screamed around both sides of her SUV like a fusillade of just-uided missiles

Assholes, she thought, seething, as one of the devil- bikers popped a wheelie She could have shot one of the she hated most on this earth was to be snuck up on

Trying to roll the tension out of her neck, she glanced back at the six buzz-cut men seated behind her to see if any of them had witnessed her blow her cool But they were cal as usual

Though all of Perrine’s handpicked cartel soldiers had obeyed her so far, she never once forgot that they were killers of distinction fron of weakness, even the slightest hint of fear, could be fatal in her line of work

What was up with her today? she wondered It definitely wasn’t like her to be so ju It was so sensation that so unpleasant was about to occur

Or was she just being paranoid? Having a bout of stage fright? She didn’t know The only thing she kneas, this was definitely the part she hated the most, the space between the plan and the execution

The latest task given to her elite squad was to deal with an Asian gang out of El Monte called the Triuh quite seles, down in Long Beach Perrine had h, but at the last second, the Dragons had reneged, causing the seizure by the US Coast Guard of an entire shipping container filled to the brim with premium Colombian heroin