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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
NOAH
Amber may have been in a weakened state, and I may have taken advantage.
We could have gotten married quickly in New York, but not as quickly as Vegas. More hoops to jump through, and I didn’t need that.
Things go smoothly in Las Vegas, and the ceremony is nice. Very professional, which is something I didn’t expect. Can’t believe everything you hear.
Twenty-five minutes after saying I do, we’re back on the plane. None of us are gamblers, so there was no sense in staying. Besides, I want to get home and share the news with my parents. They’re going to be happy.
Buck Johnson calls forty minutes out from New York. “You sitting down?”
I don’t care when people say that to me. It’s too foreboding. “Oh, Christ. What is it?”
“Good news.”
“Really?” I look at my brothers, then Amber. “Tell me.”
“Like it never happened.”
“What do you mean?”
“She’s deleted everything or had somebody else do it. Doesn’t matter either way. It’s gone.”
I hold the mouthpiece of the phone against my shoulder. Say to my brothers, “Check Farrah’s social media.” I bring the phone back to my mouth. “How’d you do it so quickly?”
“Buck Johnson Esquire, that’s how. I tell people who’s calling, and they tremble. Feed ‘em that shit that if they want to mess with the bull, they’re gonna get the horn, and by God, I got the biggest fuckin’ horns in the pen. You get what I’m saying to ya, Noah?”
I chuckle because of the twang he’s using and because what he’s telling me isn’t too far from the truth. “I get what you’re saying, Buck.”
“Good.”
Blake taps my leg and shows me his phone. “Nothing.”
Rob concurs, “All gone.”
“Thanks a lot, Buck,” I say. “Make sure you send a bill.”
“Already in the mail.”
“I’ll talk to you.”
“Yeah. Later.”
I hang up. “That Buck is something, isn’t he?”
“Good at what he does,” Blake says.
“Nobody better,” Rob agrees.
“So,” Amber says. “Everything’s good.”
“Taken care of.”
She looks at me funny.
“You know what I mean. We’re not the Corleones.”
