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“Glad you’re alright,” Trevor said as he checked Maggie out. “Only you would go to retrieve coffee and find yourself a woman.”
“Funny.” I chuckled as I tucked Maggie into my side. “Maggie is an old friend. We go back to high school.”
Maggie spoke up from my side, “Yeah, back when I was a prude.”
I glanced down at her, lifting her chin. “I said that to get him off the scent. If he had known that we had any connection, he would have used it. Speaking of which—” I glanced around. “He got away.”
“What?”
“He got away. He traded clothes with an employee and slipped out with everyone else.”
“Oh, my god! He helped the pregnant woman out!”
“Do you see him around here?” I asked her.
She started looking around. “No, he was here a couple of minutes ago, but I don’t see him now.”
“Did you get a look at his face, Maggie?” Trevor asked her.
“No, not when we were leaving,” she answered.
“Not when you were leaving?” Alex echoed back. “Did you see him earlier?”
“Yeah, actually, I did.”
“What?” I barked. “When?”
“Before they came into the coffee shop. I saw them go into the jewelry store. One of the men, Len, almost knocked me down and then glared at me.”
“Shit,” I muttered as I swiped a hand along my jaw and searched the area again.
“Why? I can give the police a description now.”
“Yeah, you can,” Alex replied to her.
“If he remembers that he saw you before the café, he will know that you can ID him.”
“So,” she said with a shrug.
“Mags, he knows where you live.”
Her brow furrowed. “How?”
“He took photographs of all the licenses. He knows where everyone lives.”
She looked like someone had just tossed a bucket of cold water into her face. “That’s why he did that?”
“Yes, and that's why I didn’t give him my ID.”
She frowned at me. “But you didn’t have one on you anyway.”
“Yeah, I did. It was tucked into the back of the notebook, along with my retired military ID.”
“Oh,” she said as she glanced around nervously.
“You think he will come after her, or anyone?” Trevor asked.
I shrugged. “I don’t know. It depends on what Chuck has to say. I have a feeling that Chuck will give up his accomplice to get a better deal. I’m sure that he is smarting now that Len got away and he was apprehended. It was obvious by the look on Chuck’s face in there that he didn’t know Len was going to leave him behind.”
