"I bet he'll get a dozen call girls to stand by." Forget about Don Wilson," Lauren said. "If he was of any good, we wouldn't be having all these star ...layers who play like grade school kids."A train approached as they were laughing. They got into the train."How did that girl bait the new girl in?" Candy said."She used her boyfriend," Lauren said. "Offering him to sleep with her. Yeah, I remember now. His name is Mike." And you didn't want it?" Well," Lauren said. "Mike was cute, but not really. But they had no idea of things he’d done. They were after him. Mossad, CIA, Yakuzi, al-Queda. He was an equal opportunity offender. His hand was steady on the wheel and when he blasted through a small village and then south. He pulled up into the foothills on a goat path. He was sure he had missed Derek and Maddie. The roads on this side still had patches of snow on them and there were no other tire tracks through it.He stopped beneath a ridge and took binoculars from the car, then climbed up. I gave him the wine order and he retrieved a bottle. As I stood there, two other black men entered, close to the same age as the cashier. They all knew each other.“Yo, Calvin,, give me some of that brandy,” one said. The cashier smiled and acknowledged. The two who entered gave the appearance of laborers who probably toiled in the heat, somewhere on the island. Both were tall and one, named Jamal, was particularly heavy-set. His friend, Dwight, ordered a bottle of whiskey.“Hey, man,” Dwight. A bigger down payment means we’d have to borrow less money.’ ‘Sean…Living together—that’s a big step. And selling your home—that’s huge. We haven’t been together that long. You should think this over.’ ‘A year is long enough and we practically live together already.’ He knew her well enough now to notice the slight shift of her brows. Ana was spooked and trying not to panic. Maybe he should’ve just kept his damned mouth shut and played the role she’d wanted him to play when she asked him to.