End stop
"Now you can relax."
"How did they find us? I must have been followed like a fool."
"You don't know that so don't bother. The important thing is that we lost them."
"There wouldn't have been any need if I hadn't insisted on coming."
"Then I wouldn't have come here."
They spoke softly, one in the other's ear, exchanging more words with their eyes than with their lips. Every now and then Mason made sure the taxi driver was doing what he'd paid him to do and not driving them back or into the hands of the police. For the moment, Tim from Sunshine Cab, the one he'd terrorized to death during his hunt for Samuel Perkins, was behaving himself. He had agreed to pick them up so far from his area with the promise of a fee that contained a lot of overtime and late hours.
They'd abando
