They were idiots, and now that they’d put the Bowens on heightened alert, there was no way he was going to just simply go in, get the girl, and get out. He had to think of something else. Dora came into the room just as he was leaning back, and he realized that he should have left a few minutes earlier. “The phone is off.” He nodded, wondering what he was supposed to do about it. “And the electricity man said that we have seventy-two hours to get the unpaid balance paid or that will be off too. How can they just do that to us? And why is Kerry not doing her job?” “Her job? I’m pretty sure she, like most people, thinks you should get up off your lazy fucking ass and find your own job. Why the fuck are you waiting around for her to do everything for you?” He pulled away from her when she stood up. “You’ll figure this out today or I’m history. I don’t need a bitch like you hanging on my shoulder. At least Kerry gets what I tell her and doesn’t fuck around.”
