The SUV pulled up to the house and stopped at the curb.
I made the call and listened to the phone ring several times before he finally picked up.
He spoke in a raspy voice, like he’d been dead asleep when the phone rang. It was a number he didn’t recognize because he didn’t have my direct line, but he answered it anyway because he knew a call in the middle of the night was important. “What is it?”
“Meet me outside.”
There was a pause over the line. He didn’t ask who I was, like he f*****g knew exactly who was calling.
“Don’t come out, and I’ll break through like last time.” I hung up and left the car. The gates in front of his property had been repaired, and the guard on duty stared at me from the other side, motionless in fear like he remembered me from last time. “Open it.”
He didn
