Chapter Six
Silence reigned inside the Prius — until I got on the 101 Freeway headed south so I could merge onto the 10. As the car picked up speed, Ben finally spoke.
“What is this rescue mission, exactly?”
Funny how he hadn’t seemed too curious a few minutes earlier. But maybe he’d been waiting until I was off surface streets and onto the relatively less crowded freeway before he distracted me with questions about exactly what I was up to.
Briefly, I explained about the phone call I’d gotten and how I really didn’t have any choice but to extricate those helpless puppies from a less than desirable situation. “So, there’ll probably be some trespassing involved,” I concluded. “But don’t worry — I have a good attorney on retainer for just these sorts of situations.”
One corner of his mo
