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“So you knew Bambi?” I pressed.
She shrugged. “Met her once. Knew she wasn’t gonna last long.”
“How?” I kept at her.
“Like I said. She was stupid.”
“How was she stupid?”
“You bitches are blockin’ the view of my clients.”
We both stepped to the side.
She watched us do this, and how fast we did it, and she remarked, “Shee-it, you really after this, hunh?”
“We care,” I replied. “So, yeah. We’re really after it.”
“A’right,” she mumbled. “So she was young and dumb. Wandered onto patches that weren’t hers to work. Got in cars instead of meeting at a hotel. Shit like that.”
“And the buzz?” Luna went back to our earlier subject.
“The dumb ones are goin’ missin’,” she answered.
“Like, the ones who would get into cars?” I queried.
“Like those, yeah.”
“Only those?” Luna pressed.
“Bitch, I don’t know. Other dumb shit you can do is talkin’ to two white women who got a lot of questions.”
I took that as the sign she was done answering them.
Luna did too. So, from her crossbody, she fished out one of the pieces of paper she’d put our burner phone numbers on before we headed out (see? totally into this shit). Once she had that, she fished out one of the hundred dollar bills she got from the bank that afternoon.
It wasn’t the white of her teeth that we saw when she offered those to Jinx. It was the white of her eyes.
“Thanks, Jinx,” Luna said as Jinx took what was offered. “Appreciate you talking to us.”
Luna jutted up her chin and the bill and paper disappeared—poof!—like she knew sleight of hand.
I had a feeling, in her way, she did.
I didn’t explore that feeling.
We began to move off.
“Bitches,” she called.
We stopped and turned back to her.
“Watch your asses. Whatever this shit is, it can be nothin’ but bad. Hear me?”
We nodded and I called back, “Hear you. Stay safe out here.” Then, as an afterthought that was probably plain loco, I said, “You need anything, call one of those numbers.”
“What would I need from you?” she asked, not ugly, curious.
“I don’t know,” I replied. “But we all have the same equipment, so we’re in this together.”
