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He was a du then and he probably wasn’t now, and just like that I knehere he’d be
The rundown, three-story apart where he’d hts inside when I turned into the parking lot and shadows behind the curtains told ine that even as duo was, that he’d sleep away from the protection of his own home when so many people wanted him dead
I waited
And waited
Pissed off and angry, I waited and let e in search of a target I wanted to pound soo’s face, until I was too tired to do anything but stop It was all too ht and center, and I had no fucking clue why Even after talking with Tanya again, I hadn’t been able to figure it out Yet
“The inspector is off your ass For now, because he didn’t have a leg to stand on, but Cross these guys don’t just randoo where they’re told”
I’d replayed those words at least a thousand tiiven me her expensive advice The paper pushers had been sent by soular rich asshole, but souarantee they didn’t pay for their own crimes I didn’t have all the pieces yet, but I would I’d taken the rest of Tanya’s advice and had the guys go through every single business we had andwas up to code
“Get proactive so the next tiet the and earn that healthy retainer you pay me”
I’d just grunted and hung up, unable to see the hu shit stor about that shit again had even h my veins
Vigo chose that moment to leave the apart Mayheas that few tourists actually knew about In ot so narrow, I’d have sworn I was threading a needle
A dark, cloudless night h, the uardrails and handmade crosses testaments to all the people who’d met their end on this lonely stretch of road Hollyould have you believe the mobsters took people out here to kill them but the truth was it was almost always the desert that killed theas sun, or worse, the desert at night, would do in even the toughest mother fucker
I thought about leaving Vigo to that fate, but he slaet he was driving, which I filed away for another time
“You stalkin’ me, Cross?”
“Yep” No point in lying when his days were numbered anyway I stepped out of the Toyota and stood beside it
His eyes widened and though his chest puffed out, he didn’tabout it?”