CHAPTER 42
AFTER I FOUND out from Leah that Ethan had gotten a ride back to Riverley with Emmy, I spent the morning on the street asking questions about the drive-by, but there wasn’t much going on so early in the day. Things would come alive in the evening. When my phone rang, I was contemplating whether to go back to my apartment for a few hours’ sleep or carry on. The receptionist from the Richmond office was calling.
“Dan, you’ve got visitors.”
“I’m not expecting anyone.” Which translated as, “Tell them to piss off.”
“I can’t just send them home. They’re kinda cute in a scruffy sort of way.”
Uh-oh. I had a bad feeling about this. Well, not bad, exactly, more wrong-time-wrong-place. “What are their names?”
“Stick, Fine, and Trace.”
Close enough. And those kids were persistent lit
