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“Seriously.”
“I’m sure he did a preemptive plea. If so, he was smart. Government comes after the mob, the first thing they do is deep-six the accountants with cement shoes.”
“Spoken like a true Jersey cop with lots of experience in that realm.”
“Hey, I know what I know, you know?”
She could almost see her old man grinning.
“So what are you going to do?” he asked.
“Keep digging.”
Her father’s tone instantly turned serious and warning. “You do not want to get mixed up in anything like that, Mick. I know it was a long time ago, but there are still Giordanos out there. They couldn’t get them all. And little mobsters grow up to be big mobsters. And if they did just off this guy, some of them are alive and killing, so you don’t want to be on their radar.”
“I don’t want to be involved with any of this. The thing is, I may not have a choice. But if there is an exit ramp, I promise to take it.”
“Shit. You got your gun?”
“Of course.”
“Should I come and sleep over at your house?”
“For what, the next forty years?”
“This is not good, Mick. I can feel the ulcer forming in my gut right this minute.”
“I promise to be really careful. And thanks for the history lesson.”
“I’m not telling your mother.”
“Smart man.”
She clicked off, drew a deep breath, and let out a silent scream that made a muscle in her face lock up. She put her head down on her desk and took several long breaths.
“Mommy, you okay?”
Gibson looked over to see Tommy staring anxiously at her from the floor with his dinosaur pillow. She gave him a reassuring smile.
“Mommy is just fine.”
Around six thirty, she fed her kids dinner. Then they had some play and reading time. Later she put them to bed.
When she got back to her home office after cleaning the kitchen and taking a quick shower, the phone rang.
Thatphone.
CHAPTER14
WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOUbeen?” said Gibson, clearly irked at the lapse of time. “I’ve been calling and calling you.”
“I do have another life, Mickey.”
“What are you going by today? Still fake Arlene?”
“Clarisse will do.”
“Is that your real name?”
