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Then he and Chowleena left.
“You find Rosie?” I asked Lee, coming out of the lounge.
“No.”
“The diamonds?”
“No.”
“Is Duke back?”
“Yes.”
“Is he safe?”
“Yes.”
“No diamonds?”
“They’re gone.”
“Fuck!” I stomped my foot. “Who has them?”
“That’s a good question.”
“Fuck, fuck, fuck!” I snapped again. “Did you talk to Terry Wilcox?”
“Yes.”
“How’d that go?”
I had lifted my hand up to shield my eyes from the sun so I could look at him. During my questioning, Lee was looking beyond me to the alley and into the back yards of my neighbors. When he answered, his eyes shifted to me.
“I gave him your excuses for missing dinner on Wednesday.”
“What were those?”
“You’d be with me, and I’d be fucking your brains out.”
My vagina went into spasm and my knees went weak.
“How’d he take that?” I asked, trying to pretend I wasn’t about to collapse.
“He wasn’t pleased.”
“Erm, can you explain what you meant earlier by ‘declaration of war?’”
“Only if we do it inside. We’re exposed up here.”
I grabbed the phone, the timer and my sarong and walked into the bedroom. I threw everything on the bed and tied the sarong around my hips. Lee closed the door behind him and pulled off his shades.
He walked up to me, tossed his sunglasses on the bed and untied the sarong from around my hips.
“I just tied that,” I told him, grabbing for it.
He ignored me and threw it on the bed, out of my reach, and put his hands on my hips, drawing me to him.
“I thought you were gonna tell me about this war thing,” I reminded him.
