1503900738 by Johnny Shaw

Author:Johnny Shaw [Shaw, Johnny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503900738
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2018-07-02T22:00:00+00:00

Eighteen hours later, Gretchen waited outside the secure area of the Raleigh-Durham airport. A big smile on her face when she spotted Stephanie wheeling her bag. They hugged, crushing each other.

“Be careful,” Gretchen said. “This might be illegal in North Carolina.”

“Fuck ’em,” Stephanie said, giving Gretchen a kiss on the mouth.

A mother covered her daughter’s eyes as they walked past.

“We have other ways to convert her!” Stephanie yelled at the fleeing woman.

Gretchen took hold of her bag.

“Thanks for coming so quickly,” Gretchen said.

“It’s going to sound sappy, and I’m not a sappy person,” Stephanie said, “but it was the longest we’d been apart, and it had been getting to me. I wanted to see you.”

“You sap,” Gretchen said.

“You’re the one that had to come up with a ridiculous reason to invite me out. I’m still not one hundred percent sure I heard you right on the phone.”

“If it sounded crazy, then you heard right.”

“Crazy is my wheelhouse,” Stephanie said. “This is the most romantic date anyone has ever asked me on. If I had found out later that you had done this without me, I would have been apoplectic.”

“I got no control over the money. Your share is going to have to come out of my end when the score is over.”

“Who cares?” Stephanie said. “I should pay you. Gets me out of the self-help rut. It’s become too much like a job. I’m going to finish the few things I’m preregistered for and then take a break. No fun in easy pickin’s.”

“You don’t know how sad it makes me to hear that a life of crime can be drudgery.”

“Glamour only exists from a distance,” Stephanie said. “Up close, everything is work. I know that’s true, because I read it on a brochure for a weekend seminar about finding your self-shaman.”

Gretchen thought about stealing comics and how it had become routine. No danger. Profitable, but stale. “It’s good to shake things up.”

“So let’s get shaking.”

Gretchen threw her bag in the trunk of the rental car. “Have you ever been to Spain?”

“Once. I was there for El Colacho, the baby-jumping festival.”

“That’s not a real thing.”

“Men dress up like devils and jump over babies.”

“They get weird in España.”

“It’s our kind of country.”

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