A by Verna Hargrove

Author:Verna Hargrove
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

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"So, you hatched your master plan over a bottle of Jose Cuervo?"

"No!" I punched him in the arm, making the car swerve a little on the nearly deserted highway. We were taking the old route 66, scenic, ill maintained, and less conspicuous. "We were only joking around."

"But then it became serious."

I looked out the window. "I guess it did."

"When?"

"Right about the time I got evicted and had to go live on Lynette's couch. It smelled like urine. And I wasn't even sure if it was from the golden retriever or the babies, because no one in that house could seem to hold their bladder. Even Lynnie dribbles when she laughs too hard."

"Wow. More than I needed to know."

"You did say you wanted to know everything."

He grinned. "So I did. Okay then, you decided to do it for real. Lynette and Quinn were with you?"

I shrugged. It took a while, but Lynette started realizing just what that kind of money would mean to her kids and Quinn, well, Quinn said it could be more of a high than when she bungeed naked off a 400 foot bridge in Ojai. Besides, we all figured that after enduring years of Leeman's leers and ass grabs we'd earned this. Call it hazard pay.

"So, here's what I want to know," he said, turning to me. "Where did you get that gun?"

I smirked. "Let's just say I have friends in low places," I said, remembering how my mother's latest honey, a paranoid underground militia member, hadn't even missed the pieces I'd borrowed from his stock arsenal underneath Mom's doublewide.

He rolled his eyes. "Oh please, don't tell me you're one of those girls that goes around quoting Garth Brooks songs? I'll let you out right here."

"You wouldn't dare."

"I might."

"You forget, I have the gun."

He lifted one eyebrow at me and grinned. "Good point."

"Thank you." I settled back in my seat, pulling one bare leg up to my chest as I let the sun soak into my skin.

"So… you decided to rob the bank to get enough money for your condo?"

I shook my head. "No. We did it out of revenge. On L.A. Mu. And Leeman. We wanted to see him squirm."

"Really? Pure revenge?"

I paused. "Okay, so maybe not pure revenge. There was a little greed in there as well."

He laughed. Deep and low in his throat. It seemed to rumble off the abandoned red-rock canyons surrounding us like a picture postcard. "Greed I understand. So, you convince the girls, you get the disguises, you have a gun. Then what?"

I turned to him and smiled. "Then I met you."

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