Death's Last Run

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Author: Robin Spano
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your fucking medicine. Too bad you never made it as a rock star; your alcoholism would have worked for your public image.”
    Wade took a sip.
    Georgia’s eyes bugged. “You’re actually
having
that? It’s not even eight in the morning.”
    Wade took a larger sip — more like a gulp.
    â€œThink about it, though.” Georgia’s tone softened into something sad. “We close the bar, then it’s just you and me, living like we used to. We can move back to the city, wander into Stanley Park and have weekends like normal people.”
    â€œMaybe have some kids.”
    â€œI’m too old to have children.” Georgia shivered like a ghost had just passed through her.
    â€œYou’re only thirty-six. You want to condemn us to a childless old age?” Wade said, feeling bleaker than ever. He was thirty-eight, which at the moment felt ancient.
    â€œJesus, Wade, do you have to be so melodramatic when life doesn’t do what you want it to?”
    â€œI’m just trying to find something to make my life worth living.” Because Sacha was gone, and Wade wasn’t sure anything was left.
    â€œNow you have nothing to live for.” Georgia grabbed a towel and began fiercely drying the juicer parts from the dish rack.
    Shit. Wade had to get her onside, to agree to the partnership with Richie. “We used to have so much fun together. Remember Morocco?”
    Georgia smiled, but it was short-lived. “We were in our twenties. We didn’t know what stress was.”
    â€œI’m taking Richie’s offer. It’s a fair price, and he’ll help pump young blood into the place.”
    â€œNo.”
    Wade glared at Georgia. Their eyes locked in what felt to Wade like hate.
    Georgia shook her head firmly. “I know I said I wouldn’t exercise my signing authority. But this is a hard no. You get partners like that, you’re only asking to get raped. I love you too much to see that happen.”
    â€œThat’s not love, Georgia. That’s control.”
    â€œMy name is on that lease, and I have a professional reputation to maintain. I can’t have my name dragged through the mud.”
    â€œDon’t you get it? The landlords are taking back the bar if I don’t give them forty-five grand in two weeks. Partnering with Richie solves that —
plus
it gives the place a cash infusion to really get it pumping.”
    â€œI’m fine with closing the bar. I’m not fine being in bed with criminals.”

SIX

    RICHIE
    Richie Lebar tapped his fur-lined boot against the police station floor. He saw a tiny tear on the suede at his toe, which annoyed him. He didn’t like leaving his boots in Jana’s foyer — she just threw her stuff everywhere, no regard for anything of hers or anyone else’s.
    Inspector Norris was taking forever to read the suicide note. His thin lips pushed in and out from his face like a goldfish in a tank, slow and stupid. Finally, the little inspector looked up. “Thank you for this. You’re free to leave.”
    â€œI promised Jana I’d bring the note back.” As Richie held out his hand, he wondered if maybe he should lose a few of his gold rings. Less bling might make people take him more seriously as a businessman when he became Wade’s partner in the bar. On the other hand, nothing said confidence like personal style. Richie had to make sure he stayed true to his real self, even while he tweaked his image to fit into the business world.
    Norris smoothed the note on the desk in front of him. “Jana’s going to have to find another memento to clutch in her sleep. This is evidence.”
    Richie shook his head. For a cop on the criminals’ payroll, Norris didn’t seem to understand who was in charge. But the little cop had real control issues — probably why he became a cop — so Richie had to tread lightly, not undermine Norris in an obvious
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