“Can you get a few days off, and come along with me? Strictly unofficial. No badge, no gun. Just as my friend. If you—oh, hell, I’m going to lay a guilt trip on you to get you to do what I want.”
“If I care for you, I’ll do this? Is that it?”
“I guess so. That stinks, doesn’t it?”
She managed half a laugh. “I’ve heard worse.”
Lindsey said, “I just need someone to drive a car for me. To help me get around. This can’t wait ’til I recover from this shoulder. I have to go as soon as they let me.”
She bit her lip. “I can get the time. I have some days coming. But I don’t know. How are you going to find the car down there? Do you even have Roberts’ address?”
“Can’t that come out of DMV? Wouldn’t it be on his driver’s record?”
“If his legal residence is Oakland, that’s all the DMV will hav
