“What’s that?”
“Meat lovers, and veggie lovers.”
“I can wrap my head around that.”He called it in, as she went to her bedroom to change.She called out that she would be starting to pack up her bedroom, and he come down to ask what she said.
“Sit,” she pointed to the end of the bed and waited until he did.She looked at him and nodded once.“I met with Kessler today.”
“Really?Kessler actually showed up?”
“Yes, he’s agreed for me to go with you.He wanted to talk to me personally about this assignment.I can leave on Monday so we will be arriving in the area at the same time.”
“Great, what else did he have to say?”
“He’s telling the director that I’m being transferred and the director will tell my office on Monday that I transferred out.”She held up her hand and hurried out of the room, and came back with her purse.“I talked to him about getting burner phones, he said he’d get back to me by the end of the day.This arrived at my desk at quarter to five.”She handed him the interoffice envelope and let him open it.They both whistled as they saw the cash.
“Did you count it?”
“No, I saw it was cash, then stuffed it back in the envelope and into my purse.I didn’t need anyone to walk by, see it, and start asking questions that I’m not at liberty to answer.Besides, it’s no one’s business what I’m doing.”
“There’s five grand here.”
“Holy shit.”
“What else?”he asked as he handed it back to her.“I’ll put you in charge of getting the phones.Also, we’re going to want to get receipts because we won’t want a RICO case brought against us.”
“I agree.We may be undercover, but we’re not criminals.Maybe we can each purchase them, but at every other stop.You know, I get the first one, you get the second.”
“We can do that.What else did he say?”
“That when he gets back to DC tomorrow, he’s going to have HR pay me my wages into the account I used when I was undercover before.”
“Seems fair, anything else?”
“Not from him, but I mentioned something to him.He’s going to look into it.”
“What’s that?”
“I told him if he has any more undercover agents that need a place to hole up, unwind, or whatever, maybe lay low, to send them our way, but not before he reaches out to you via that encrypted laptop you told me about.”
Psycho cocked his head to the side and stared at her for a long minute before he nodded.“I like that idea.This way we’ll know who to expect, and I can ask questions about where they were undercover, and the results.How hot of a tail they may have.How deep they were in.”
“I sort of know what you mean about results, but could you clarify?”
“Results in were arrests made, or did they pull them from the assignment for some reason?Will people come looking for the agent, or are they in the clear?Another thing I would want to know is if the club they infiltrated would be looking for this agent?What was the location of the undercover assignment before they were pulled.Stuff like that.”
“I hadn’t thought of that, but since everyone is already undercover agents, I thought that was a way to bring in more club members.”
“Good thinking.”He went to reach for her, but she shook her head.“If we’re leaving here in four days, we need to get to work.Since its Wednesday now, I can leave out enough clothes for the last two days of work.I thought that maybe on Saturday morning we could go get the truck and dolly.Do you know how long the trip will take?”
“Two days, or twenty hours.”
“Okay, yeah, I guess driving from Florida to Iowa will be long.We’re not going through Texas, are we?”
“No, I thought we’d go up the state, into Alabama, over to Mississippi, Arkansas, then go up into Missouri, and into Iowa that way.Texas and New Mexico will be between us and Tucson.I’m avoiding that area.Not that I think anyone from Devil’s Scorpions would be out of jail, or looking for us, but I don’t want to push our luck.”
“Got it.”
He rose from the bed and started out, then turned back around.“One question.”
