Page 209 of Affair
“No, I’m checking on them. Tell Von that the horses are still here. They must have dropped the trail, and booked it out of here. I’m well aware that we have to find him.”
He listened.
“No, if I see the Doctor, I won’t kill him. The other guy is useless to us.”
Gamble was confused.
What was this?
He was useless but Poe wasn’t?
If mercenaries were here, why was he useless? Wasn’t this about him?”
Oh, fuck.
Had he assumed wrong, and now, he’d left Poe alone in the cave unguarded?
This.
Was.
Bad.
He prayed the man kept talking so he could get more information out of him.
“Don’t worry. Tell him that when we get him, we’ll kill the other guy, and I’ll bring the doctor to the house. He’s going to have to make that code appear, or he’s dead too. His brother had to have given it to him. Trent and Willy checked in ninety minutes ago, on their way to Tommy Lewiston’s house. They said they weren’t finding it there, and they re-searched the place.”
Gamble was hella curious.
The code?
What the hell kind of code could Poe have that they’d want?
That was befuddling.
For three months, the man had been with him, nonstop. He’d not gotten any weird calls, just one call from his father, andnothing more. He’d not seen him even on any of his tech. He was a paper and pen kind of a guy with actual files.
Now, Gamble wanted to know more.
Only, the worst thing happened.
The man moved close to where he was hidden, and Diablo moved toward Gamble to protect him. Only, he was going to out him.
Shit.
Shit.
Shit.
When the man was standing right there, Diablo moved close to him.
This idiot didn’t know how much danger he was in, not only from Diablo, but him.
“Hey, horsey,” he said, after hanging up. “You’re pretty. Luckily, you’re innocent in this, or I’d have to shoot you in the head.”
Diablo didn’t like him.
That was clear.
