Chapter 13“How’s that target on my back looking to you?”
“Not funny.”
“But your plan worked. Like I said in the beginning, I was the bait. I even got threatened by the mastermind himself, tackled this morning, and if I’d been caught who knows what river I’d be at the bottom of now. Of course, burned to a crisp first.”
Frisano was walking outside into the day’s sunshine with him. Still, a darkness existed between them. “Fulfilling your hotness.”
It was an attempt.
“Look, Jim, you’re made of tough stuff.”
“Always was. Last few months, I had to get tougher.”
“Was that necessary? I thought we’d, kinda sorta almost, hash it out in that restaurant.”
“See, that’s the thing. Kinda sorta almost.”
Frisano just nodded, looking away as he did so. They kept walking, quietly, beyond the grounds
