“Yeah.” Lydia shuddered. “Well, she’d been lying to so many people for so long.”
“They wouldn’t give it back, either. Since it was still on her when they took her away. I told Detective Altman to be careful because it’s got important information. But we’ll have to use yours to call Carlo.”
She handed him her phone when they came to a Stop sign. Lydia wasn’t ready yet to face another round of questions. She did, though, agree to a rendezvous at Rosa’s. Outvoting the part of her that wanted to go straight home and curl up like a porcupine was the part that urgently needed company.
“What about Chill?” she asked Mudge. “Same thing when he showed up?”
“Exact opposite. He asked me where Helen was, where you were, he gave me his Nextel, and said Tell headquarters to send backup, pronto.”
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