Half an hour later, Beau told Rick, “You look like a college kid. Okay, not a kid. You actually look older now.”
Rick grinned with delight. “Then I should have done this a month ago.”
“Uh-huh. If you had, Matilda would be giving you hair extensions to change your look. I don’t think you’d want to sit still that long.”
“I could have done it for you, Beau,” Matilda commented. “Then you’d have looked like an aging hippie.”
“I’ll stick with this,” Beau replied, rubbing his hand over his freshly shaven head.
She laughed. “Like you’ve got a choice, at this point. Okay, go find LeRoy. I’m sure he’d chomping at the bit to get you set up with your new IDs and everything that goes with them.”
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It was well past lunchtime by the time they finished dealing with LeRoy’s man, who actually h
