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“Leo comes off gruff, but he’s a good guy,” she says. “Show up to your meetings and do the work and you’ll get back in his good graces. Just do me a favor.” She looks me dead in the eyes. “Stop fucking up your second shot at life, Falcon. My sanity, not to mention your father’s checkbook, will thank you.”
“You’d better believe I won’t screw this up, Lola,” I say. “Thank you, for everything.”
She smiles. “So where are you headed now?”
“I’m going back to be with Savannah.”
“Go wherever the hell you want, just get to your meetings with Leo every damn day he tells you to.”
I nod vigorously. “I will.”
“And you’re going to have to give up the firearm.”
“It’s already in evidence. The cops took it that very day when they came to my place.”
And that’s fine. I have plenty more firearms if I need them.
“All right.” She gives me a once over. “Keep your nose clean, Falcon. Hawk’s got a car here for you to take you where you need to go. But the first stop is back to the county where they’ll remove that ankle monitor.”
“That’s where I’m going. Thanks a lot, Lola.”
“Thank your father. He pays my bills.” Lola waves as she leaves the courthouse, but then looks over her shoulder. “And I mean it. You keep that nose clean.”
I nod and wave.
Keep my nose clean.
She’s covering her own ass. She knows what I’m up against. And she knows that my nose is going to be anything but clean.
22
SAVANNAH
Vinnie and I head upstairs, both of us still panting from the workout, when Falcon’s satellite phone rings.
“Hello?” I say breathlessly.
“Vannah, it’s me.”
“Oh my God, Falcon. How did everything go?”
“Pretty good. They decided not to revoke my parole, except now I have to go to parole meetings twice a week and I have to do therapy.”
“I told you about therapy at your first meeting.”
“I know, Savannah. Therapy isn’t going to do shit for me.”
“Not with that attitude it sure won’t.”
“Savannah, I have no regrets. I did what I had to do, and I’d do it again.”
I sigh. “It’s precisely because you put your ass on the line that you should be in therapy. You have a lot of complicated emotions that a therapist could help you untangle.”
He pauses. “Well, I have to go no matter what I think. So maybe it’ll help me. But I think the thing that will help me most is you.”
I smile. His words make me feel so warm inside. “That’s a sweet thing to say, Falcon, but maybe going to therapy and being with me will help you heal from your past. Maybe sometime soon you’ll actually feel comfortable telling me what happened that day.”
“Savannah, I love you. And I trust you. I will not keep any other secrets from you. But I’ll be taking that one to the grave.”
