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“Because aren’t you with the boss?”
“Yeah, but that’s for him to answer”
“He’s not answering ?”
I looked up He’d finished paying for our gas, and he was co on his phone
“He’s reading your text now”
Or he was reading soot back to him? That would be fast Raize had said Estrada would want to see Abram in person, but Raize had made Abram, Basil, whatever, share all of Oscar’s operations with hi sos and networks today
That’d require a bomb, and we hadn’t made one yet
“Cavers is withfor his instructions”
“I’ll pass the e”
He chuckled
I didn’t knohy he chuckled Again, this conversation wasn’t funny
I’d oing on this —orA rule I needed to adopt: stop thinking soto survive, then I’d need to think
Raize opened the driver’s side door Thank God I really needed to stop thinking
I was getting a headache frohts and e numb
Raize frowned, seeing so?”
I hung up on Jake, sliding the phone back into my pocket “That was Jake They’re awake You’re not responding to his calls or texts, and he and Cavers need to knohat to do today”
He continued to frown, still staring at me, but he hit a button and put the phone to his ear
I tried to tune him out, but I couldn’t
“Send Cavers to get ingredients to o with him, stay with him all day” A pause “We’ll need to make a few cakes”
Cakes Noas snickering
Raize put the phone away and I said, “That’s not very code-like of you”
Cake was code for bomb Everyone knew that
He started the engine “Cavers is extra dumb”
True “Jake’s not,” I told him
He pulled out of the gas station and turned left “I know”
Ugh I was kinda hoping to go back to denying certain things to ht now I felt all sorts of restlessness I was on edge, and I needed a release of some form
Gah No Not that kind of release…or maybe?
I hoped not I wasn’t ready for the kind ofRaize
Why was I thinking like this again?
Maybe I should call Jake back He seehts, fro about so I could be okay hat Raize was going toabout sex
I cursed, shifting in ”
Raize glanced over “What’s going on with you?”
“Me shooting a gun wakened shit indead”