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“You’re totally crazy,” she declared.
“We hear that a lot,” Luna told her.
“I bet.”
“Again, be safe,” I bid and pulled Luna toward the car.
We got in and I drove back onto Roosevelt. Since I was too chicken to try left turns across busy dual carriageways with suicide lanes (it was all in the name, just sayin’), I turned right.
It took a second before Luna noted, “They make it easy for them. Get right in their cars.”
“Yep,” I replied.
“You think the strippers do that too?”
“No idea.”
I flipped a uey as soon as I could, and we swung into the parking lot of the hotel Jinx indicated.
I backed into a spot, turned off the car, and we waited.
“Women go to strip clubs all the time now,” Luna said as we waited. “Maybe we should hit The Slide and have a look around.”
At SC, while we were going through our envelope, I’d given her the entire lowdown.
And I was thinking the same thing.
However…
“Kinda too close to Cyrus Gibbons for my liking,” I told her. “And from what I can tell, he’s there a lot.”
“He doesn’t own the joint, though. ‘Occupation unknown’ is what it said on his info sheet.”
“He didn’t own the joint where he was doing shitty business in Denver either.”
“True.”
We got silent and watched.
Luna broke the silence again.
“Just to make it official, I approve of Cap. He’s da bomb. It was cool how open he was with stories about his family, not to mention he seems bulletproof from our posse’s crazy, which isn’t surprising considering the crazy he comes from. And obviously, I dig how he doesn’t hide how into you he is.”
“Yeah,” I murmured.
We exchanged a happy glance.
Then I asked, “Did you notice how yesterday, Dream turned when you piped up?”
“Totes.”
“I know you guys don’t always get along, but wasn’t that weird?”
“Totes,” she repeated.
“You wanna talk about it?” I offered.
She shook her head. “It’s not my damage. It’s hers. She’s got enough to worry about in the now. When it’s time, I’ll call you in to have my back.”
