Hard Case Crime: The Vengeful Virgin - Plot & Excerpts
We were in the back yard, and she was helping me figure placement for a couple of speakers out there. I carried a folding ruler, and kept measuring tree trunks and the side of the house, craning my neck around to make it look good, in case anybody happened to see us. I said, “You can’t stay out here long. You better keep running back into the house, so you can check on him. Isn’t that what you’d do normally?” “Yes.” “Did the doctor have anything to say when you got back?” “He told me Victor should be in the hospital.” I chewed the inside of my cheek. She said, “He didn’t speak to Victor about it, though. Because it riles him up. I told them I’d been shopping. I stopped on the way home and bought a lot of stuff; I just grabbed everything in sight.” “Good. But we can’t be seen together again, away from this place—not once.” “All right.” “You do everything just as you’d normally do it,” I said. “Try to imagine me as exactly what I am—a TV serviceman, who’s installing two television sets and an intercom system in your home.
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