Uh-oh.
I shook my head slowly.
“She’l go on not knowin’ if I see that check’s been cashed.”
Wow. Lavonne was good.
“I don’t know what to say,” I told her.
Her face softened the tiniest bit and her lips turned up.
“Say thank you and keep yourself safe. If we see or hear from Ray, we’l cal you.”
“You too?” Tex boomed and everyone jumped.
Surprisingly, I’d forgotten he was in the room. He was looking at Bear, his brows were knit and his eyes were narrowed.
“What?” Bear said.
“You see her Dad or hear from him, you cal her. Yeah?” Bear waved his hand, stil coping with the loss of his flat screen TV.
“Yeah,” he said.
I wrote down my address and phone number and gave it to Lavonne and she walked us to the door.
“I’l pop by and see Nancy, soon as I can,” Lavonne told me.
I turned and smiled at her. “She’l like that.” Lavonne and I hugged, everyone said good-bye and we got in the Mustang.
“I think I want to be her when I grow up,” Al y said.
“Except, without the good-for-nothin’ husband.” I smiled at Al y and my cel phone rang. I pul ed it out of my purse and looked at the display.
my purse and looked at the display.
It said, “Unknown number”. I flipped it open anyway, hoping it was Dad.
Before I could say a word, I heard, “Where are you right now?”
This was said by Eddie, or, I should say, a not very happy Eddie.
I panicked and to buy time, I said, “Um.” But I drew it out as long as I could.
Indy was sitting next to me in the backseat, passenger side. There came a knock on her window and everyone jumped.
My head swiveled around and so did everyone else’s.
Through the window, I saw a pair of narrow h*ps wearing jeans. My heart stopped, thinking it was Eddie, then Lee leaned over, looked through the window and crooked a finger at Indy.
Lee looked about as happy as Eddie sounded on the phone.
Damn.
Damn, damn, damn.
“Holy shit,” Indy whispered.
She was right. It was a holy shit moment. Not to mention, obviously Lee saw us and cal ed Eddie. This was not good.