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He pointed to the juniper-covered hill beside them, toward a stand of trees
“The nanny and Bennett’s kids are less than a mile up there somewhere,” he said
Vida got on the radio, and after a minute, another 4x4, an FJ Cruiser, rolled down the steep incline of theroad from the opposite direction
“You have a hit?” Estefan said from behind the FJ’s wheel
“We just heard Bennett and the nanny,” Vida said excitedly “The software is saying we are within a mile, that they’re up in those trees”
“Good,” Estefan said “About two hundred feet back up the road, I saw a tire track going that way”
Vida s the Bennett safe house empty was to come up here to Northern California and conduct the search herself Their contacts in town had put them onto an old, half-mad hippie doper who lived somewhere around here His naiven the cartel trouble in the past, but he’d actually been seen talking to the Bennetts at church
She had tried to contact Perrine several ti It was his party, she knew She could picture hi over the events
She felt a tug of envy at not being invited No matter In the back of the Rover were twelve air-shipment boxes with dry ice Twelve little boxes that would be packed with twelve Bennett heads and would be on their way to Real del Monte by h her devotion to him
Around Vida’s neck, on a gold chain, was the eiven her after she’d finally broken him down and they’d made love the last day of his stay They didn’t use protection, and it was the middle of her cycle She hadn’t taken a test, but she knew she was pregnant with his baby It would be a boy, as handsome as his father
Everyone had said what a char man he was, but he was far better than just that In their tihters, her life He was like a father to her, or at least what she thought a fathernever actually had one
She sighed as a full-body tingle glowed all around her Her, Vida A sis would change for the better And they would be getting better beyond her wildest drea, was the Sun Prince
“Vida!” said Estefan
“Yes?” she said, shaking off the daydream
“Shall we drive a little farther in or leave the cars here and walk?”