Total pages in book: 141
Estimated words: 143382 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 717(@200wpm)___ 574(@250wpm)___ 478(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 143382 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 717(@200wpm)___ 574(@250wpm)___ 478(@300wpm)
Well, either Tex or Mace or someone knew how to navigate this, because that was how to navigate it.
“Tex hasn’t been around the camp for very long,” I remarked. “But I think some of the folks trust me, so I thought maybe I could ask.”
“No one knows anything, Jessie,” Homer said. “Only time the cops have come not to rustle us around was when they came asking about this. We’re worried. If we knew something, we would say.”
“I’d like to ask anyway. Is that okay?”
He nodded.
“Will you escort us?”
He nodded again.
I slid a glance through the chicks, and we headed into the camp.
A frustrating, slow-going hour later, we found Homer was right.
No one knew anything. Or at least not the ones who would talk to us, which was about half of the camp. Homer took over questioning about a quarter of the rest. The last contingent didn’t talk to anybody, not even Homer, so we didn’t approach them.
Though, one woman, her name was Connie, made a remark about the Fentanyl dealer and the worse-than-normal feeling he gave her, which I didn’t think was a coincidence.
Tex avoided us by entering his tent when he saw us, something I wasn’t surprised about. Being “new,” he’d be edgy about outsiders, so he did it to keep his cover just in case someone was watching.
One thing of concern was that I noted the General wasn’t among them.
We were back at Homer’s tent when he said, “Seems like we wasted your time.”
They didn’t.
Though, it was close to time for Harlow to meet up with Brady, so it wasn’t worth it for Luna to take her slot, which was a bummer.
“We have a semi-kinda lead we’ll be looking into,” I told him. “Maybe it’ll pan out. It wasn’t a bust.”
He dipped his chin at me, at the chicks, and he was about to duck into his tent when I asked, “Where’s the General?”
Homer gave me a sad look and said, “He goes out on what he calls patrol at night. Usually gets lost, rattled, holes up somewhere, and in the morning, we gotta go find him. By now, he’s probably lost.”
God, I hoped Scott, Louise and the guys found help for the General, and soon.
Homer waited to see if I had anything else, making me wish, not for the first time, that I could find help for him too. He was such a good guy.
Maybe I could talk to Scott and Louise about it.
Since we didn’t have anything else at that moment, I smiled at him and said, “Thanks for helping.”
He nodded, once, and finally ducked into his tent.
As we walked to the car, Raye said to Harlow, “We’ll drive out like we’re driving away, so I can make sure we don’t have a tail. Then we’ll come back and drop you on the other side of the warehouse.”
“Cool,” Harlow said.
We all got in the car. Raye drove away.
“Keep driving,” an ultra-deep voice came from all the way in the back.
We all shrieked, and Raye drove up on the sidewalk.
I twisted in my seat and had to contort because Javi was pushing himself through the opening into the backseat with Harlow and me.
Somehow, he managed this miracle regardless of his size, and he planted his fine ass between me and Harlow.
“Quick draw. Impressed. But if you tase me, beautiful, when I come to, I’m kissin’ you,” he said, his head turned toward Harlow.
I leaned forward and saw Harlow staring up at him with her mouth hanging open and her Taser aimed at Javi.
“Harlow, put your Taser down,” I ordered. “This is Javi.”
“You’re Javi?” Harlow whispered in her adorable grown-woman, little-girl voice that I suspected drove some men wild.
“In the flesh,” Javi whispered back.
“Hi,” Harlow breathed, yep, still in that grown-woman, little-girl voice.
Javi made a low, rough noise that I felt in my nipples.
Translation: he was one of those men who her voice drove wild.
Which meant I also felt my eyes bug out of my head.
I turned to Luna to see she’d twisted in her seat to stare at them, and her eyes were bugged out of her head.
I looked to the rearview mirror to see Raye had corrected us and we were back on the road. She was still driving, but she was also looking in the mirror with her eyes bugged out of head.
Their eyes could be like that simply due to all that was Javi, since this was the first time they’d seen him.
Though, I suspected it was only partly due to that and partly due to what was happening between Harlow and Javi.
I returned my attention to them to see I’d still ceased to exist and those two were the only people in the SUV.
I only had a split second to consider a Javi/Harlow hookup.
In that split second, I decided it both scared the shit out of me, and I loved it.