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"What do you want?"

"I done told you," Moses said, his drawl stretching out endlessly "I wanted to check in with you--ah, ask you a favor I want you to call Ms Lilly at the Bonhomie Club, tell her what a lovely ht"

Moses Grace and Claudia hadn’t been in the nightclub the night before Six undercover agents were there, hidden ca ent in

"Your boss, DAD Maitland, looked really nice in his dark suit and that yellow tie with the black squiggles on it"

"Yeah, tell "

"Dark suit, red tie with blue triangles on it, looked pretty so to hi It was affectin’, real affectin’"

Savich drew a deep breath They’d been talking a good long tih, but he wasn’t sure Best to keep hi as possible, to make certain "Tell me, Moses, why are you so interested in me? Me in particular? What did I ever do to you?"

Moses was silent for a moment "So you think this is personal, do you, boy? Well, fact is, you’re right I got more hate for you stored up inside me than Lucifer"

"Why?"

"You hurt her, boy, hurt her so bad she was screa with it" He broke off Savich heard the old ht tell you before you die, boy You know ht Moses was not going to tell hiht be the best way to keep him on the line Savich said in an amused voice, filled with contempt, "You think I’d actually have down and dirty sex with that bug-eyed crazy teenage slut? I bet Claudia drools, she’s so far gone, particularly since she’s with you" Savich laughed, vicious and nail-hard "Hey, I’d kick that crazy bitch in the head before I’d let her get near hter? Or is she soer you picked up?"

Blank surprise, Savich heard it in the cold, dead silence He waited, finally heard a wheeze, as if Moses Grace was going to start hacking He’d been as crude as he could irl old Moses’s lover?

Then Moses Grace wheezed out a laugh that ooseflesh rise on Savich’s arh for you, boy, talking all dirty like that Let e your mind if Claudia has a shot at you I’ve seen h was enough and to dig out the old girl’s eyes then kick her out of the van"

Yes, tell ht, you old liar That’s about as believable as Hollywood throwing a ticker-tape parade for Schwarzenegger"

He looked up to see Sherlock standing ten feet aatching hih for you, Moses, knowing you’re too decrepit, too diseased, to screw your oife"

Savich felt cold dead rage blasting at hi, juicy sound "I don’t like a dirty ht soot her fantasies about you and I’ve got mine We’ll see what you say when I watch your life drain away I’ll win and you’ll know it See you then, Savich"

There was the silence of dead space Moses Grace had disconnected

Sherlock walked to hiainst his shoulder "I’ve never heard you speak like that before"

"It surprised old Moses, too," he said as he saw Dix walking toward them

Savich nodded to him, then speed-dialed the co "This is Savich Did you locate Moses Grace’s cell phone?"

He heard a , "I need the location now!" Then a voice ca, "He’s within a two- toward Leesburg We just dispatched local police and agents to the area He was h to turn the phone off, so we’ve lost his signal You kept hi ti a different carrier than yours, so we had to track hih Sprint’s Auto your nuet phone That took a while We’ll keep you posted"