Travis and Vanessa returned to the living room. Vanessa paused to lean over Gio and issue him a final warning. "You have no guns, no phones, no money and no car keys. You're nothing but dumb muscle and you know it. Don't even think of trying to find me."
"Oh f*****g s**t just go away!" wailed Gio.
Vanessa walked to the bottom of the stairs to pick up the trashcan and dropped her stolen items into it. "Let's go," she said to the others.
Travis took the lead, wanting to keep an eye out for possible witnesses or problems. His eyes swept the residential streets as they hustled over two blocks and across the next, grateful once again for both the rain and the poor street lighting. He saw no traffic passing by. The street where they had re-located the Mercedes had been fairly empty, though no
