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Kade dug out a key, opened the front door, and punched out a code on the beeping alarm. Then he shut the door behind me, put a hand on my back, and hustled me into the kitchen.
“Stay here while I check out the rest of the house,” he said emotionlessly. Before I could object, he was gone.
It was a little creepy standing there all by myself in the dark, so I turned on the kitchen light and crossed my arms uneasily.
Kade returned about sixty seconds later. He was unemotional as always, but he seemed less tense. However, rather than put up his gun, he set it on the kitchen island and sat down on a bar chair.
“Was all that really necessary?” I snapped. I was shaky and on edge, and Kade’s theatrics were annoying the hell out of me.
“What?”
“Pulling the gun, checking the house – ”
“Yes,” he said simply.
“Why are you acting like there’s a serial killer around the corner? It was an armed robbery, not a – ”
“No it wasn’t,” Kade interrupted in a monotone voice.
“Why, because it was two motorcycle gang members who did it?” I scoffed.
“No, because it’s obvious it wasn’t an armed robbery.”
The guy was infuriating.
“He told them to open the cash register,” I pointed out.
“And shot Benjy instead of getting the money.”
I grappled for some plausible explanation. “Maybe he thought Benjy was reaching for a gun.”
“No.”
“How do you know? You were in the bathroom.”
“Soon as I heard them come in, I cracked the door open. I was watching the entire time. Benjy didn’t make a move.”
“Maybe the robber just freaked,” I suggested.
Kade just looked at me like he was bored with the topic, which pissed me off even more.
“The robber probably would have gone for the money if you and Lou hadn’t gotten to him first.”
Kade shook his head. “No.”
“How can you be so sure?” I asked, angry at his complete and utter self-confidence.
“Anybody robbing a strip club wouldn’t go for the cash register. He’d go for the strippers, get them to cough up their tips. That close to closing time, you’re talking several hundred bucks minimum per girl. Six strippers, that’s at least 1800, maybe as much as three grand. The register would be minor in comparison.”
“But all the alcohol – ”
“Nobody but Midnight Riders drinks alcohol. Everybody else is getting overpriced Cokes and bottled water. At five dollars a pop, you’re talking several hundred bucks maximum. That’s nothing compared with the haul they could get from the strippers.”
I stared at him.
I hadn’t thought of that…
“Then you’d hit Lou’s office,” Kade continued. “Make him open the safe. Then maybe you go for the cash register, but I’d hit the customers. Make them throw all their wallets in a trash bag. ”
