Chapter 8
“I’m telling you, Sofia. You’ll talk him down, or I’ll have his head, do you hear me?”
Felix lingered on the patio, listening to Kirk talking on the phone.
“I have to go. No, I’m dead serious.” Silence filled the house then Kirk growled. “If I so much as scent him you won’t see him again, understood?”
Felix didn’t know if he should walk inside or wait until Kirk was done with the phone call. Eavesdropping was wrong and yet…He held his breath, waiting for Kirk to speak again. He didn’t. The sound of the fridge door opening was Felix’s cue to cross the threshold.
“Everything okay?” He lingered by the kitchen door.
“Sure, some business with Sofia and one of her pups who doesn’t know his place.”
“Sofia’s got dogs?”
Kirk spun around, a look of distaste on his face, and Felix r
