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And smart, too, I’d give him that.
The cops would be crawling all over the strip club, processing the crime scene where Benjy got shot.
Lou was absolutely safe. Nothing I could do to touch him there.
Meanwhile, a dozen of our guys were out in the desert disposing of a Santa Muerte corpse.
The Devil may take a breather, but his minions are always busy.
Years before, Moose had been playing checkers with one red chip.
Lou was playing chess with a couple of queens, and he was a fucking master.
I left Fiona’s telling myself to remember what game I was in, and to not bring a knife to a gunfight.
4
Ithought about her the entire way there. Fiona.
God, she was beautiful. Sexy, smart, tough, funny… the whole package.
And she was worried about me.
She cared for me, more than she probably wanted to let on.
Me?
I wanted nothing more than to turn the bike around and have my way with her for the next 24 hours.
Forget the cops. Forget the corpse. Forget Benjy lying wounded in the hospital. Forget the brothers, forget Lou, forget the whole damn thing. Just revel in her body, her sultry smile and sassy eyes, and let the rest of the world go hang.
But I’m a soldier.
And I had a job to do.
Still… when I thought of her breasts… of sliding inside her, wet and tight… of the way she cried out when she came…
I’ll let you come inside me.
FUCK.
Why the hell was I leaving that, to go face down a world of problems?
Oh yeah.
‘Cause heavy is the head that wears the fuckin’ crown.
No, not Shakespeare – again. The Zac Brown Band, with Chris Cornell, paraphrasing Shakespeare.
Google that shit.
5
Igot to the Seven Veils and parked my ride. The lot was jammed with patrol cars, their lights turning the whole exterior of the building into a red-and-blue bad acid trip.
I walked past the rank and file cops on the outside. Not one of them tried to stop me; every single one of them knew who I was.
Most of them just averted their eyes.
