“Okay, everyone sit tight for a minute,” Dewi said. “I have to pee.”
The hall bathroom was spotless, and Dewi drew in a relieved breath that everything finally seemed to be handled and worked out just fine without any further complications.
She returned to the kitchen and looked at Joaquin. “Did I forget anything?”
“I don’t think so.”
“You drive Emily back to her apartment in her car. I’ll leave here shortly.” She held out her hand to Joaquin. “Keys.”
Joaquin dropped the key fob into her palm and they departed.
Dewi looked around to make sure she didn’t forget anything. “Oh, you don’t have one of those doorbell cameras, do you?” she asked. “Or security cameras?” No telling how many caught her and Joaquin during the chase along Miami Beach today.
Then again, itwasMiami Beach. What happened probably didn’t even top the ten weirdest things to happen there that morning.
Catarina shook her head. “No cameras.”
“Great. Okay. I’m going to leave. In five minutes, unless one of the babies cries before then, you can get up from the table and move around normally. Remember, you never saw any of us today, it was a normal day, other than Anthony unexpectedly showing up. You guys were just sitting here talking and catching up.”
They both nodded.
“Oh, and Anthony?” She smacked the back of his head. “Get your goddamned child support caught up, dude. Bylegalmeans, okay? Start wearing condoms. At least until you can afford to support the kids you already have, you deadbeat. And consider getting a vasectomy if you don’t want anymore kids.”
Dewi let herself out, breathing a sigh of relief as she climbed into the Saleen, then swearing when she had to undo her seatbelt so she could adjust the seat and steering wheel.
Then she looked into the mirrors.
“Motherfucker adjusted my goddamned mirrors!”
CHAPTERTWENTY-FIVE
DEWI
Two hours later,Dewi and Joaquin were back on the road and heading north to Tampa.
For realsies this time.
It was after dark when they returned. Dewi had to drop Joaquin at her house so he could pick up his car, and then she followed him over to Carl and Mateo’s to visit Tamsin and pick up Ken, who rode over there a couple of hours earlier with Beck.
After Dewi arrived—and peed—then said hello to Tamsin and the baby, she and Joaquin stepped outside onto the screened lanai to talk with Beck, Badger, and Duncan to give them an update.
Brianna and Malyah volunteered to stay with Tamsin. They still weren’t leaving Tamsin alone, but every day she was incrementally improving now.
As far as relating the day’s events, Dewi took point and didn’t…lie. Exactly.
She just…
Omitted.
Trimmed out the boring parts.
Like the whole part where they recovered the wrong baby.
And the chase up A1A along some of Miami’s most expensive real estate.
Joaquin arched an eyebrow at her but she shot him a deadly glare that kept him quiet.
Until…
