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“I saw his brains hit the wall.”
Albert walks over to her. “How many shots did you fire?”
“Two, why?”
“Did you pick up your casings?”
“Did I what?”
“The bullets. Did you pick up the shell casings after you fired?”
“No, I just ran back here.” She slumps into a chair. “Why are you all looking at me like that?”
Albert turns back to me and I nod in agreement. “Plan B.”
“On it.” He gets on the phone. “Plan B,” he says down the line. “Get back to me in sixty seconds.” He hangs up. “Doc, he good to move?”
“I’ve only just finished stitching him up. He should be in bed right now.”
“Answer the question.”
“He can move as long as he takes it slow for a while. That comes open again when I’m not around, he’ll bleed out.”
Albert comes over to me. Him and Diego get me to my feet. I feel woozy for a second but then I manage to straighten up as Albert goes over to the door. “Sirens,” he says, looking outside. “You’ve got a couple of minutes, tops.”
“I’ll get you out,” Diego says. “My car’s in the back lot.”
“What’s going on?” Kelly asks. “Will someone tell me what’s going on?”
I face her, ignoring the dizziness that wants me back on my ass. “We’re leaving,” I grunt.
She doesn’t say anything. She follows me out the back of the club as the sirens grow louder. Diego gets the car started as Edward and Albert load me into the back. I feel the stitches pulling but they stay together. “See you soon,” Albert says. “It’ll be sorted by the time you get back.”
Kelly climbs in next to me as Albert goes back into the club, already on his phone. I have no doubt he’ll sort it but he’s not a miracle worker.
“Where are we going?” Kelly asks as we drive out of the lot onto a back street that heads away from the club and from the approaching sirens.
“I’ll tell you when we’re in the air.”
“The air?”
I shift in place so I can look at her. She’s got a dazed expression on her face. I’m not surprised. I’m guessing she’s never killed anyone before.
“You murdered someone,” I tell her. “You had your reasons and I get that but you fucked up, Kelly. You left the bullet casings at the scene. They can be traced back to me if the detectives given the job are ones Don Colombo owns. Albert needs to get in there fast and get rid of them. If the cops are already in there, he needs to move money and people around to make sure this investigation goes nowhere.”
I grunt as we go over a bump in the road. “He needs to find out how many witnesses there were and deal with them too. Until that’s all done, we need to be gone from the scene. Hang around and you’ll be arrested for this. You’ve got his blood all over your face. We need to burn these clothes. Get you clean. Stay out of sight. They’ll try to turn you so you sell me out before Albert can handle it all. So, to be safe, until it’s all over, we’re getting out of here.”
“Where are we going?”
“Easiest place to hide is another country. Even if they want to talk to you, you’ll be thousands of miles away.”
She looks at me and then she nods. “I get it. We hide out for a while.”
“I can’t believe you shot him. What made you do it?”
She narrows her eyes, looking for a moment as cold inside as I was before I met her. “He hurt you.”
I find myself smiling despite everything. “Maybe I made you a little too confident with that outdoor fuck.”
