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One of the first things I did the next day was tell Bobby about Toby’s demise. He was stunned and had to grip his desk to stop from falling over. I also detected tears forming in his eyes.
“You’re sure?”
“As sure as I can be at the moment. I was sitting next to Reggie when he got the call.”
Bobby stretched, rubbed the back of his neck. “But he seemed so cool and confident when I took him to the airport. Even looking back now I didn’t sense anything. Just the opposite. He seemed ready to take on whatever.”
That makes two of us who had no inkling I thought, but there was no reason to question Reggie. I’d have to chalk it up to not knowing what lurks beneath the surface. Like Bobby, I was dumbfounded.
“I guess that takes us off the hook,” Bobby said, color returning to his cheeks.
C
