Shit!
Raye ducked into the back bedroom.
She went straight to the closet.
Shanti flattened her lean body on the floor and scooted under the bed. I wasn’t sure her booty would make it, but thankfully, she disappeared.
I went to the closet with Raye.
I closed the doors, and we hunkered in there.
I heard the snap on her Taser holster go, so I did the same with mine, pulling the weapon free.
That was when we heard. “Don’t be a pussy, TJ. Look around. The dude is hardly on top of his handyman work.”
“I’m not either. But if my back door was busted, I’d fix it.”
“What’s the guy got to steal?”
TJ didn’t reply because Duane had nothing, as far as I could tell.
Nothing to steal and just nothing.
It took a good deal of willpower not to slide into utter despair at what we were learning about this guy, but considering I was in a very dodgy situation and had to have my head in the game, I managed it.
The first man kept at TJ.
“Anyway, who the fuck but us would come after this guy? He’s a total loser. Even the whores he sees every night don’t have the time of day for that guy. He’s like the invisible man.”
I clenched my teeth and felt the unhappy vibes wafting off Raye.
“Just put it where he can see it so we can get outta this dump,” First Guy said. “Dex is tired of his crap. He needs to get with the fuckin’ program.”
“All right, asshole, all right,” TJ bit out.
And yes, we could hear all this as plain as day considering the walls were paper thin.
Okay, so if we discovered nothing else that night, at least it was good to know that whatever was happening hadn’t come to some nasty fruition.
Though, since those guys were there, the bad news was, whatever was happening was still happening.
There was nothing for long moments before TJ asked, “What are you doing?”
“I was wrong about the guy having nothing to steal. These are some solid titty magazines.”
“Just grab ’em and let’s go. This place smells like shit and the whole vibe is making me contemplate suicide.”
I completely felt what TJ was feeling.
“So dramatic,” First Guy barbed.
After that, we heard some moving around and then nothing.
We stayed put.
More nothing.
We remained where we were.
