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“Okay honey. Are you under a light?”
“Yes. And I have mace. Just come and get me. Okay?”
Jenny checked her phone and from James Lake, she calculated it would take about fifteen minutes to get there. “I should be there in less than twenty minutes. Okay?”
“Okay. I’m so sorry, Jenny. So sorry.”
“What for? This is what friends are for.”
Jenny disconnected and turned to Jada. “Did you hear?”
“Yep, sounds like we’re going to pick up your friend. She sounds pretty shaky, are you sure we shouldn’t call the police?”
“I think that would spook her even more at this point. Let’s just go get her and bring her back here.” Then the idea of seeing her friend that she hadn’t seen in over three years hit her brain and Jenny grinned. “Jada, you’re going to love her.”
“I’ll text Gideon.”
“I’ll text Brax.”
What the fuck? He re-read his text from Jenny. “Gideon, how far away are we from your house?” Brax demanded to know.
“Seventy miles.”
“And to the airport?” Brax asked.
“About the same.”
Brax dialed Jenny. “Go back to the house. It’s a setup.”
“What are you talking about?” Jenny sounded perplexed.
“It’s a setup.” Brax repeated himself.
“My best friend would not be setting me up.” He could hear the exasperation in her voice.
Brax rubbed the back of his neck. The same hairs that had been standing up when they’d entered Edgar’s condo were standing on end now. He put his phone on speaker so Mateo and Gideon could hear.
“Jenny, your best friend just called you and said that she flew in from Colorado, unannounced, and that her car is broken down near some warehouses, and she wants you to come and pick her up. Is that right?”
“Yes.”
“Why haven’t you called the police?”
“That would just scare her more. She’s a nervous traveler, anyway. Jada’s with me.”
“Jada, tell me you’re not falling for this shit,” Gideon groaned.
“Maybe,” his fiancée strung out the word.
“Both of you go back home and wait for us,” Gideon ordered.
“She’s scared. I’m picking up my friend.” Jenny was beginning to get mad, Brax could tell.
“Call the police. Have them arrive when you do.”
There was a long pause, then finally, Jenny responded. “Okay, I can do that.”
“Jada, you know where the gun is in the Range Rover. Take it with you.”
