Hard Luck by Pascal Scott

Author:Pascal Scott [Scott, Pascal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948232821
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing
Published: 2019-10-31T23:00:00+00:00

Denise hung up the receiver and then picked it up again. She put a quarter in the slot and dialed a number in Oakland.

“Dan?”

“Who’s askin’?”

“It’s me, Denise.”

“Neece. Hey.”

“Hey. So, did it happen?”

“What?” he asked.

“What we talked about. Did it happen on Friday?”

“Oh. Uh, that. No. There was a problem.”

“What kind of problem?”

“Uh, yeah, she couldn’t find her,” he answered.

“She? It was a girl?”

“Yeah.”

“Okay. So, whaddya mean she couldn’t find her? Did she go to the cemetery on Caye Caulker? Lizbeth said she’d be waiting in the cemetery at the payphone. She was gonna wait for me to call her after me and Mickie did the job.”

“Yeah, well, she didn’t show.”

“That’s just fucking unbelievable,” Denise said. “Why wouldn’t she show?”

“You’re asking me? How the fuck do I know?”

“Awright. Shit. That means she’s still alive.”

“Uh-huh.”

“I need to think about this for a minute.”

“Yeah. But, uh, Neece?” His tone sugared into a syrupy timbre Denise had never heard from Dirty Dan during the two years she’d ridden with him as his BOB (babe on back) and not in the two years since his wife made him quit his little blond chick-on-the-side.

“I’d…I’d like to see you,” Dan said now. “I haven’t seen you in a while.”

Denise paused.

“Neece? You there?”

She hung up the phone. Fuck. Oh, fuck. Are you fuckin’ kidding me? She’d been around enough snitches to know that tone of voice. But it couldn’t be. Could Dirty Dan really be dirty? Maybe Dan was an undercover cop. Or a CI. The Angels had been infiltrated and ratted out before, and everybody knew that plainclothes cops and undercover DEA actively worked the Bay Area.

Nah. Not Dan. There must be some other explanation, but Denise couldn’t imagine what it was. So, now she had a problem. Well, two problems, because she had been going to ask Dan if he could arrange another hit, this one on Mickie. Damn. Now Lizbeth and Mickie were alive, Denise was stuck in San Francisco, and more than seven million dollars was just sitting around waiting for her to come get it.

Denise thought about what she knew for sure. Lizbeth had been in Belize the last time she had talked to her, but Lizbeth was probably gone from there by now. After the call to that payphone in the cemetery hadn’t come, Lizbeth must have known that Denise had cut her out of the take. If she was keeping up with the news, she’d know that the newspapers were reporting that Mickie was hiding out in Mexico City. Lizbeth had probably headed there to track down Mickie and confront her about the money.

Denise tried to get her thoughts together. If things had gone as planned, Lizbeth would be dead. But she had to assume now that Lizbeth was still alive. She was likely in Mexico City, looking for Mickie. Maybe Lizbeth would find Mickie, maybe not.

The important thing to remember was that Lizbeth had to be taken out. Lizbeth and Mickie were the only obstacles between Denise and more than seven million dollars.

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