That's How I Roll by Andrew Vachss

Author:Andrew Vachss [Vachss, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Suspense, Mystery & Detective, Crime, Hard-Boiled, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9780307907134
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2012-03-20T05:00:00+00:00

was really encouraged by such things. I guess, deep down, I was hoping Tory-boy would find himself a girl with real smarts. A girl he could marry, and then they’d take care of each other. He could bring in all the money they’d ever need—I’d already made sure of that—and she could help him with some of the stuff he couldn’t handle so well.

But any girl from around here smart enough to do that kind of thing was smart enough to get out. And never come back.

ory-boy’s mind was always at ease. I kept it that way by surrounding him with knowledge he could have and hold. He knew I’d always fix anything, always keep him safe. Always love him.

I got a lawyer to draw up the papers. A legal trust, so Tory-boy would be taken care of for the rest of his life. I even named the lawyer as the trustee, so he would be the man who paid any bills that might come up. He was also to make sure Tory-boy got whatever else he needed, from bribing a lawman to drawing up a deed.

The lawyer I used, he was a young man. His father and his father before him had been lawyers, too. Now all three of their names were on the shingle, but only him and his father were still alive.

I wasn’t worried about that lawyer trying to cheat Tory-boy. His father handled cases for the people I did all that work for, and I was confident he’d passed what that meant along to his son.

If that lawyer ever cheated Tory-boy, if he ever failed on his promises, he was never going to be able to start his car. Or pick up his telephone. Or stand near a window.

He’d never know how or when, but something would be coming for him; he could count on that.

If I was still around, I’d handle it myself. I had a hundred ways to do that. And if I wasn’t, then those people I had worked for, their part would be a man with black pantyhose over his face, black latex gloves on his hands, holding a double-barreled sawed-off, with a pistol in his pocket for finishing off his job. The people I had done all that work for, their part was to make that lawyer’s ending dead sure.

I didn’t care if that ever happened. All I needed was for that lawyer to believe it would.

I had plenty on his father, too. When I told him just a little bit of that, he got real anxious. But I calmed him right down. I made him understand I wasn’t selling; I was buying.

All those things I told him, they weren’t any kind of blackmail; I was just making a payment on Tory-boy’s life-insurance policy.

Tory-boy had more than one of those. Which was kind of the point of me talking to that lawyer at all.

As long as Tory-boy stayed protected, it would be as if I had never died. I’d still be with him, keeping him safe.

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