“No streets called Windmore nearby?”
“I don’t see anything on the map, but I can keep working on it. I’ll dig up what I can on Charter Pharmaceuticals, too.”
Fogel rubbed at her temples. “I could catch a flight and be there by tonight.”
“That’s a long shot. Might be better to stay around there—head back to the strip club and try and pick him up if he goes back,” Stack suggested.
“He’s done around here. I think he got what he came for.”
“The girl?”
“Yeah.”
“You see her? What’s she like?”
Fogel wasn’t quite sure how to describe what she saw last night. She finally settled on a single word. “Dangerous.”
“That seems about right.”
Fogel looked back over at Officer Jun. This time, he waved. “I’ll call you when I land.”
10
David’s eyes snapped open.
His mouth was dry.
“You were dreaming,” Latrese Oliver said from the seat beside him.
He closed his eyes again and leaned back into the seat. The rumble of the private jet was usually soothing, but he couldn’t get comfortable. He preferred these trips without her, but she had insisted. She always insisted when it involved that girl.
“How much further?”
“A few more hours before we land, then another hour by car.”
“And she’s still there?”
“Yes, and we’ve confirmed Stella is on her way with the boy. All together, nice and neat,” Oliver said. Her breath stunk almost as bad as that damn arm of hers.
He did smile at the thought of seeing Stella again. It had been far too long.
11
Sixty miles outside of Fallon, I turned left off Interstate 580 and took the South Lake Tahoe ramp toward Minden. “Do you have any cash?”
Stella looked up from my copy ofGreat Expectations.She had been reading it for the past hour. “I have $2,463.00.”
“On you?”
“Under a stone back in Fallon.”
My heart sank.
“Of course, on me, Jack. I don’t trust banks, and stones aren’t much better.”
Her spirits had improved, but her skin had managed to grow even more pale. Although the air conditioning in the car was blowing at full, her temples glistened with a thin sheen of sweat. The shaking had come and gone. I pretended not to notice, but she caught me looking down at her hands more than once.
“I’ve got about sixteen hundred, I think. I withdrew all I could last night. If we trade in the Jeep and use about half the cash, we should be able to get something decent.”
