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“What?” he said into the phone and then barked out a clipped, “Details.”
Before he was done listening, he moved back into traffic. He flipped the phone shut and slid it in the console.
“I thought it’d be a quiet night. I need a quiet night,” he muttered to the windshield, not talking to me.
“What are we doing?” I asked.
“Wearen’t doin’ anything. I’ve got something to do. You’re waitin’ in the car.”
“Lee, that sounded like an order.”
“Thatwasan order.”
Hmm.
Lee explained, “Luke was scheduled on call tonight, but since he’s in the hospital, we’re a man down. I thought it’d be a quiet night. Only one skip, who can wait, and most of the boys have been doubling up, working cases and doing stuff for you. All of your shit is either dead, behind bars or been offered employment at Fortnum’s. An informant called Ike, who’s manning the surveillance room. The skip has turned up. Bobby and Vance are on call, but instead of at the office, I let them go home. Vance lives in a cabin outside Golden. I’m closest. Bobby’s comin’ as backup. He’s five minutes behind.”
“How do they know you’re closest?”
“All company vehicles have a tracking device. The Crossfire and your VW have one too.”
My VW? This was news.
“Really?” I asked.
“Really.”
“These days, my car never moves,” I told him like he didn’t know, since he took me practically everywhere.
“I know,” he said.
“Are you gonna take it off now that Rosie’s found?”
“You’re now covered by Nightingale Security.”
Er…what?
“I thought you weren’t doing security anymore.”
“Only special circumstances. The boys monitor the condo and now they monitor you.”
“I don’t know if I’m comfortable with that.”
“You will be when some nut job with a vendetta against me uses you to get to me, and my boys get to you in five minutes rather than after you’ve been raped and murdered.”
Yikes.
I hit the mental control that set up Denial Zone around that subject and changed it to a new one.
“Who’s Ike?”
“Another of my men.”
“How many haven’t I met?”
“Luke, Mace, Jack and Ike.”
Mace?Who had a name likeMace?Where did these macho idiots come up with this shit?
