Fault Lines by Teri White

Author:Teri White
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road

12

Chris parked nearly a block away from Stanzione’s place. He turned off the engine and it was suddenly very quiet. “Well,” he said unnecessarily. “I guess this is it.”

Kathryn was sitting alone in the backseat of the stolen Renault, smoking one more in an endless chain of cigarettes. “Michael is going to be so totally pissed,” she said.

“And you think that’s funny?” Chris asked.

“Sure I do. In a way. That bastard thinks he owns the world and everybody in it. This will teach him a lesson.”

“Right,” Chris said. Under other circumstances, he might have found such innocence—or was it stupidity?—touching. Or sad. As it was, he just got impatient. It was his experience that men like this Stanzione didn’t learn their lessons. They mostly just got even.

Dwight, who had been sitting back with his eyes closed since they’d left Venice, spoke finally. “When I was a kid, there was a dog that lived at juvie hall. Big fucker that looked more like a wolf than a dog. But he was okay. As long as you played his games. The thing you didn’t want to do was cross him. Because that made him mad. If you were stupid enough to piss that dog off, he turned into a fucking beast.”

“So?” Kathryn said. “What’s that got to do with anything, I’d like to know.”

Dwight only shrugged.

“God,” she said helplessly.

Chris was glad when they both shut up. He could feel a familiar tension rising inside his chest, a feeling he always had before a big job. It had been a long time since he’d felt this way, though; the shitty little jobs they’d been pulling didn’t feel the same. The difference, he thought, was a little like jacking off compared to a really good fuck. A difference of degree.

But no job had ever been as big or as important as this one. Chris knew, perhaps instinctively, that what happened tonight was going to determine how the rest of his life went. He didn’t know if either Dwight or Kathryn really understood what was happening here.

Probably not. Kathryn was off on her own trip, which was partly lust for the money and partly revenge for whatever Stanzione had done to her. And Dwight … well, Dwight was full of dreams of Aztec gold and pirate treasure, as well as still fighting against the nightmares of the past. That didn’t leave a whole lot of room for anything else in his mind.

All in all, this wasn’t exactly the greatest collection of criminal minds since the Barker gang. But it didn’t have to be. All they had to do was hang together a little bit longer.

They just had to keep cool for a little while and do this job. Then it would be over.

Chris opened the car door. “Come on, people,” he said briskly. “Let’s fucking do it.”

Kathryn giggled as she slid out.

Dwight just got out and closed the door quietly.

The two men lingered in the shadows as Kathryn approached the gate and spoke to the man inside.

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