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Sid looked at me nonchalantly. “Good talk, huh?”
“You could say that.”
Fiona looked at me worriedly as we got back in the Oldsmobile. “What happened?”
“I just got confirmation of what we’ve known all along.”
“What’s that?”
“We’re DEFINITELY taking down the Richards PD, too.”
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Sid texted Sloane an explanation of what was going on. She called his phone about 11AM as the four of us sat in the Oldsmobile.
“Hello, beautiful,” Sid answered.
“Oh God,” Fiona groaned.
I had to agree, the old guy’s antics were ridiculous – but I did enjoy seeing Fiona get jealous about it. It was a nice sign that she wasn’t cooling down towards me.
I could hear Sloane’s laughter on the other end, though whatever she said after that was muffled.
Sid cleared it all up with his response. “This is the cue ball with the dill pickle. Hold on, I’ll put you on speaker.”
“You should hang out with this one more often, Jack,” Sloane said. “He’s a helluva lot more fun than your normal crowd.”
“Actually, you can have him,” I said.
Sid beamed. “Fine by me.”
“Where are you?” I asked.
“About an hour outside of Richards. Where am I supposed to meet you – or do you still think I’m going to dick you over?”
“I never thought that,” I lied.
“Of course you did, but I won’t hold it against you.”
After we’d left the payphone earlier, we’d scouted the new town and come up with a meeting place – a strip mall where a retail store had pulled out, leaving a gigantic empty parking lot. I gave her directions.
“See you in an hour, then,” Sloane said, and hung up.
“Do you trust her?” Sid asked.
“I trust her enough.”
“Enough to what? Not rat you out to this Lou fella?”
“Yeah.”
“Why?”
“Because money-wise, it’s in her best interests not to.”
I paused. My ideas and Sloane’s ideas about what was in her best interests might not exactly be the same. Not if she’d been able to cut a better deal with Lou.
I added, “Although… it might be a good idea to hang back and check things out when she drives up.”
