Chapter Sixty-Six

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“You gonna stick by me?”

“Maybe….”

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“Dom!” Mia yelled from the garage office, where she was working on the books, “Phone!”

“I’m kinda busy here, Mia,” I shouted back, barely lifting my head out from under the hood of the ‘78 Cougar XR7 Leon’d bought at the last government auction, thinking the luxobarge would be an easy sell to Edwin or one of his crew…or anyone else trying to play like he was a pimp. “Can you take a message?”

“I really think you should take the call, Dom…” Mia answered, still not leaving the office.

“God…” I muttered, pulling myself away from the car. “What the fuck is so important that it couldn’t wait until I finish working on that damn car?” I demanded as I walked into the office.

“It’s Thomas,” Mia said, smirking at me.

“Oh,” was all I could answer. I took a second to calm myself down before taking the phone from her.

“Hey, Thomas, what’s up?” I asked, shooting Mia a look when she just kept standing right there next to me.

“Don’t you have work or something to do?” I asked, glaring at her as I cupped my hand over the mouth of the phone. “Or maybe I should just have you talk to him?”

She just rolled her eyes and backed up about two feet - still obviously trying to listen in on the conversation.

“Okay, yeah, good,” I said, turning my attention back to Thomas. “I’ll try to make it over this afternoon.”

“Well?” Mia said almost before I’d hung up. “What is it?”

“I have to go find Letty,” I said over my shoulder as I walked out of the garage.