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“You don’t know why?” he asked.
“No, you see—” I began again.
“No?” he interrupted again, still using his scary quiet voice.
“Well no, what I was going to say was—”
“I’m drivin’ down the road, and stopped at a light I see the woman who’s sharin’ my house,my bed, wrapped around another guy. You’re that woman and you don’t know why I’m angry?”
It didn’t sound good when he said it that way.
“Eddie—”
He got close, his eyes were glittery and his voice was still scary soft.
“Don’t fucking ‘Eddie’ me. Seems I gotta spell everything out for you, so listen good,chiquita. Last night, when I said no one touches you but me, that meansyoudon’t touchanyonebut meeither.”
I put a hand to my hip.
I mean really, did he think I was stepping out on him?
“It wasn’t what you obviously think. Vance was just taking us to Zip’s!” I informed him.
Uh-oh.
I immediately saw my mistake. I should have told him we were out to lunch, visiting the dog pound to play with sheltered puppies, buying crack, anything but going to Zip’s.
“What were you doing at Zip’s?” Somehow, the low, scary voice got lower and scarier.
I decided not to lie, not because I thought it was a good way to go. More like I couldn’t come up with another story quick enough.
“Vance was outfitting us with gear.”
“What kind of gear?” Eddie asked.
I decided to be vague. “A few bits and pieces.”
“What kind of bits and pieces?”
I shouldn’t have tried vague. I’d already learned that Eddie wasn’t fond of vague.
“Stun guns, Tasers, pepper spray,” I said.
“Why?”
I took a deep breath and, since I was being honest, I went whole hog. “I’m going to look for Dad.”
His eyes narrowed, his mouth tightened and my stomach lurched, but I tried not to let on that he was kind of flipping me out.
“Show me,” he said.
I stared at him. I thought of ignoring his request, but decided against it. He’d push it and I’d end up doing it anyway.
Indy had the stun guns and Tasers in her car. The only thing I had was the pepper spray in my purse. I opened my bag and barely got it out when Eddie’s hand came out and smacked against mine, sending the pepper spray skittering down the sidewalk.
“Hey!” I snapped, my head coming up and I pulled out a genuine glare.
“What do you do now?” he asked and came in close.
