Chapter Twenty-Nine
Sebastian treated it like a game, at first. He enjoyed breaking people, and Leland annoyed him. If Lenny was honest with himself, Leland annoyed him too, though he would have chosen to leave him alone. But gradually, Sebastian realized Leland was always a step ahead. It took him a week to figure out that they weren’t catching up. Whenever they arrived anywhere, Leland was gone. Just barely gone, but gone all the same. It wasn’t a game, it was an actual chase, one that could go either way, and that irritated Sebastian. It went from a game to a chore. For a time, he wanted to get it over with, grab the guy and drag him back to Rhona so she would hide them with whatever hiding expertise she had.
But in Tampa, it became personal.
Lenny stayed in the car with an unrespons
