"So go over this with me again," said Julie, barely keeping calm. "Explain to me why this isn't stupid."
Beau sighed dramatically and slouched against the alley wall. Tager and Hausman had just escorted Sarah upstairs as Nick, Julie, and Beau watched from the shadows of a distant alley. Connard scratched himself and exhaled deeply from boredom. Beau had predicted that they wouldn't keep her at the police station, and he had been correct.
Nick couldn't even remember what Beau had originally told them at the bar. He'd been too drunk. But after everyone had slept it off in their own booths off in the shadier parts of the bar, Beau had apparently changed things, in his head, in the middle of the night.
"Because we're doing exactly what they want us to do," said Beau. Julie squinted at him.
