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conditioner softly stirred the air.
     

 
    CHAPTER FIVE
     
    “Call Seth,” Jack said. “We need to know where we are going.”
     
    Tina flipped through the phone until she found Seth’s number. “Seth, Tina. We’re on I-40 Westbound. Jack wants the address for the warehouse.”
     
    “I don’t have one yet,” Seth said.
     
    “He doesn’t have one yet,” Tina repeated for Jack.
     
    “Fuck…” Jack muttered, then held his hand out for the phone.
     
    “Seth… we got to have this, man. We’re depending on you.”
     
    “I know, Jack! But it’s Sunday!”
     
    “I know! But you said you could do it.”
     
    “I’m trying, Jack. I spoke to three places Saturday. They are supposed to get back to me first thing Monday morning with the paperwork. I told them the first one to get the paperwork to me gets the contract. But I can only do so much!”
     
    “I know. But stay on them. We are going to be arriving in LA at about… ten, ten-thirty. Nine-thirty local. I don’t to be sitting around all day with a hundred million dollars’ worth of cars on the truck while they jack off.”
     
    “I’m pushing as hard as I can!”
     
    “I know… and I know I didn’t give you a lot of time. But you said you could do it. The Sons are depending on you, Seth. Make it happen.”
     
    “I will if I can.”
     
    “I have faith in you. I know you can do it.”
     
    “Okay. I will call you back as soon as I know something.”
     
    “Good enough. Thanks, Seth.”
     
    “Yeah,” he grunted before hanging up.
     
    “We’re fucked, aren’t we?” Tina asked.
     
    “Not yet. But it’s going to be damn tight.”
     
    “We didn’t have much choice.”
     
    “I know. It was either go this Sunday and risk not finding a place to store the cars, or wait and go next Sunday and risk the cars being released from impound. Either way, it was a risk. But we’re putting a lot of pressure on Seth.”
     
    “Could we hide somewhere for a day?”
     
    “I’m open for suggestions.”
     
    Tina chewed her lip. “How about just out in the desert somewhere?”
     
    “We can’t go off pavement. We’ll get stuck or hung up for sure. So anywhere we stop, somebody could drive by. We need to be inside somewhere. And in case you hadn’t noticed, this thing isn’t exactly a Smart Car.”
     
    “Yeah. I noticed. But you handle it pretty well. Have you driven a truck before?”
     
    “A little. When I first started out I had this idea of stealing the cars and transporting them myself, so I got my CDL. That turned out to be a non-starter. But I have kept the CDL up just in case.”
     
    “So what are we going to do?”
     
    “We are going to press on and hope Seth comes through.”
     
    “And if he can’t?”
     
    “Then… we’re going to have to scramble.”
     
    “Come on, Seth!” Tina cheered.
     
    Jack snorted. “Yeah. Come on, Seth!”
     
    ***
     
    It was just after two-thirty in the morning when they ground through Flagstaff. They had been steadily climbing, and Tina had poked at buttons until she figured out how to turn on the heat to ward off the night’s chill.
     
    “How’re you doing?” she asked.
     
    “Okay so far. The nap this afternoon helped. You?”
     
    “A little drowsy, but doing okay. Mostly I need to stretch my legs a little.”
     
    “Can you hang on a little longer?”
     
    “I’m okay. I’m just not normally cooped up in a car… or truck… this long at a time.”
     
    “We’re almost halfway.”
     
    Tina groaned and stretched. “How about something to eat to help pass the time?”
     
    “Sounds good. What did Nic pack for us?”
     
    Tina rummaged in the sack for a moment. “You name it. It looks we have ham, roast beef, or turkey for sandwiches—two of each—plus three kinds of chips, beef sticks, jerky and… I claim the M&M’s.”
     
    “Just give me something. It doesn’t matter.”
     
    Tina handed over a ham sandwich and chips, and stuck a water in one of the cup