About ten minutes later, Cam heard someone unlocking the door.
“Come on. The boss wants to speak to you.”
He took his hunting knife and slit the ropes holding her ankles. She was pulled to her feet and forced outside.
“Here she is.”
“Hey, Andrews,” came a voice over the phone that sat on the ground in front of where she’d been seated.
“Hi, Ruth.”
“Andrews, are you playing both sides?”
“Both sides? Why the hell would I do something like that?”
“It seems kind of funny that when you show up, everything falls apart.”
“Why would I do something like that to you? I’m making money on this…a hell of a lot more than the minimum wage I was making at my girlfriend’s office.”
“Then who is this girlfriend?”
“The same one that visited me every week in Hagerville. You’ve seen her.”
“She’s a do
