Fortunate Son by J.D. Rhoades

Author:J.D. Rhoades [Rhoades, J.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947993112
Publisher: Polis Books
Published: 2018-06-18T07:00:00+00:00

CHARLEYBOY STARED at her, dumbfounded. “Baby. Baby. What did you do?”

“What I had to do, Angus,” she said. “What I needed to do. For all of us.” She walked over to the couch and pulled the burner phone out from under the cushion. She held it up for a second.

“Oh, fuck. Oh, Jesus, Mary, and motherfucking Joseph.” He ran his hands through his hair. “You can’t be serious.”

“A lot more goddamn serious than this fucked up scheme you had to play Mr. Luther and Caspar Gutierrez off against one another.” She slid the burner into her purse.

“You know that’s probably why he came by here, right? Because he knew you were talking to the law.”

“If he knew that,” she said, “we’d both be dead now. Or dying, very slowly and painfully.” She shook her head. “He knows something’s up, sure. So he was hoping to rattle you—us—into wondering how much he knows.”

“I’d say he did a hell of a job.”

“Not really. We know now that he doesn’t know about what you’re playing with Gutierrez. Or about me talking to the feds.”

“Because we’re not dead or dying,” he said bitterly.

“Yeah. Exactly because of that.”

There was a knock at the door. They looked at one another, frozen. “If it was Luther,” Savannah whispered, “he wouldn’t be knocking.”

Charleyboy’s face was pale. He looked like he might pass out any moment. “We hope.”

A voice came through the door. “This is Deputy Chance Cahill. St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Department. Let me in.”

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