Thieves by Steven Max Russo

Author:Steven Max Russo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down & Out Books

THIRTY-ONE

She had to call Raymundo. She didn’t know what else to do. Skooley was a psycho, no doubt about it. And he had killers after him. The kind that cut off people’s fingers and sometimes their hands and feet and arms and heads. She had read plenty about the Jumbo Cartel, and everything she remembered reading frightened her. When they killed, they killed indiscriminately—men, women, children, it didn’t matter. And usually, the deaths were horrific. Like Diggs. And if those killers happened to find a little Colombian cleaning girl mixed up with Skooley, what would happen to her? She didn’t want to think about it.

Maybe she should call the police. But she was sure, absolutely sure, that other people would be calling them. Just like she had told Skooley, dishwashers, waiters, definitely his boss at the restaurant, someone would pick up the phone and tell the cops who he was. The phone at police headquarters was probably ringing off the hook right now. Maybe all she had to do was wait, be careful, stay alert, and the cops would do their jobs, maybe have Skooley locked up before he even got back from Walmart.

Gotta call Raymundo. Maybe he would finally pick up his goddamn phone. She decided to call using her cell phone. He would recognize her number. She was in this deep already, so what if someone had a record of her calling him. He was a friend. They worked together.

She was nervous. No, she was scared. Skooley scared her more than anything. He had killers after him, and it didn’t really seem to faze him. And that smile in the picture. He enjoyed bashing those boys. She opened the pack of cigarettes she had bought for him and took one out. She felt claustrophobic in the kitchen, like she couldn’t get enough air and decided to have her cigarette outside, maybe sit by the pool and clear her head. She shook another cigarette out of the pack and put that one in her shirt pocket. There was a plastic Bic lighter on the counter, and she put that in her pocket too. She grabbed her smartphone from out of her pocketbook and walked out the back door. She went into the pool area through the gate and sat on one of the lounge chairs there on the cement right next to the hot tub where she had sat when she first laid eyes on Skooley. She tried to light her cigarette and noticed that her hands were shaking. She wished she had never said anything to that asshole Raymundo about this house. Now here she was stealing from these nice people, stuck with a redneck psychopath who had just threatened her if she decided she wanted to call it quits and just bug out, a guy who just happened to have both the police and a drug cartel hit squad trying to catch him and cut off his fingers and head to bring back to their boss, The Pig.

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