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“Yeah,” Jack said, and nodded. “Definitely.”
“Bye, Fiona,” Kade said as the medics lugged him out.
“Bye, Kade,” I called out after him.
“Bye, Old Man.”
“You’re payin’ to clean my fuckin’ upholstery,” Sid said.
Kade actually chuckled as they wheeled him out of the room.
First time I’d ever heard that sound. Even Jack looked shocked.
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Once they’d all left, Fordham pointed at the door – and by extension, Kade. “You know that every new person you tell is another violation, right? Your prison sentence is getting to be like rabbits multiplying – every time I look around there’s another ten years tacked on.”
“He was helping us catch Lou,” I insisted.
Fordham looked around. “Really? Where is he? I think I missed that part.”
“We saw Lou commit a murder,” I insisted.
I suddenly felt sick as I remembered Benjy’s sad, tear-streaked face.
“And you say this guy was the one who killed your cousin?” Fordham asked.
“Yes. Although I think Lou manipulated him into doing it.”
“Oh, well, I’m so happy to have such a magnitude of proof to present in court. Speaking of which, what the fuck did you do to that meth lab?”
“It was a trap,” Jack said. “They had a sniper around the corner set to blow our brains out.”
Fordham pointed at Sid. “But then you shot him,” Fordham said, as though trying to get clear on our story.
“Yup.”
Fordham turned to Jack. “And then you blew up the fuckin’ lab – our main piece of evidence – for… what, exactly?”
“It was supposed to look like revenge, but I did it to make Lou desperate.”
“Desperate to do what? Tear his hair out, like I’m about to do with what little I got left?”
“To rebuild the lab he needs a huge influx of cash. We figure he’s going to sell whatever meth he has left so he can get his bankroll going again. Once he gets his money, then he can start up again. He’s already got his cook back – ”
“Yeah, great work on that one. Destroy the evidence, lose the witness… it was really quite masterful.”
“It’s coming together,” Jack insisted.
“Oh, you got a plan, do you?” Fordham asked sarcastically.
“Goddamn right we do.”
“Well, far be it from me to step on your plan, no matter how ass-backwards and illegal it happens to be.”
“You seem relatively calm for us destroying evidence and losing a witness,” I said.
“Our potential star witness, I might add.”
