Fast Money: A Shelby Nichols Adventure

Author:Colleen Helme [Helme, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-11-18T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The next day dawned cloudy with a chance of rain. During the course of the morning, I checked the street several times to see if the FBI surveillance car was still there. It was. It looked like as long as I stayed home, I was pretty safe from everyone that might be after me.

I still wanted to talk to Ramos, and as soon as everyone was gone, I checked the recent calls on my phone until I found his number and called him.

“Yes?” His low voice was barely above a whisper.

“Ramos…it’s Shelby,” I said, equally quiet. “I wonder if you have some time to talk today? I need your help.”

“Would you like to meet about noon?”

“Well,” I hedged. “I would, but I’m kind of stuck here.”

“What do you mean?” he asked

“After yesterday, the FBI put a surveillance team to watch my house in case any of those guys came back.”

“I see,” he said. “Then you should be okay for a while. What is it you wanted to tell me?”

“Just that those guys are not the only ones after me. There’s this guy, Mercer, who wants to kill me too. I was hoping that maybe with Uncle Joey’s influence, he would be willing to back off. Do you know the guy I’m talking about?”

Ramos was silent for a moment. “Yes. I’ve heard of him. Why does he want to kill you?

“Let’s just say I was involved with his first arrest, but they let him go because of lack of evidence. After that, I helped the police find the evidence to charge him for murder, but when they went back to arrest him he was gone.”

“How do you know he intends to kill you?” Ramos asked.

“After he got out the first time, he found me in front of Chris’ office and threatened me. Ricky was there. You could ask him.”

“I will,” Ramos said. He was silent for a while, and I crossed my fingers, willing him to help me.

“I think I know what to do,” he said. “But I’ll need your help.”

“Sure,” I agreed, my pulse fluttering. “Anything.”

“Hmm…” he grunted. “You may be sorry you said that. This could be dangerous.”

“Not any more dangerous than it is already,” I answered. “Considering I’ve got three different people after me.”

“You’ve got a point there,” he said. “Let me figure out the details and I’ll get back to you. In the meantime, stay put.”

“Okay.” He disconnected and I closed my phone. Staying put was the easy part. It gave me lots of time to worry about what he wanted me to do to get out of this mess. Maybe I shouldn’t have agreed so easily. In fact, I should have insisted he take care of it without me, since this was all Uncle Joey’s fault in the first place.

Except for Mercer. I did that all on my own. Okay, so maybe I could forgive Uncle Joey as long as he got rid of Mercer for me. That would make us even, as far as I was concerned.

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