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now.”
    “But
it still doesn’t make sense,” Jimmy said.
    “It
makes sense,” Ashley said.   “You saw all
those drugs that guy had.   He probably
was a dealer.   They probably followed him
to our house and now they’re looking for their money, or their drugs, or
both!   They may even search my house,”
she added, as she was beginning to panic too.   “They may try to plant drugs in my house and claim---”
    She
looked up and stopped talking.  
    Jimmy
looked at her. “Claim what?” he asked.   Then he looked where she was looking, and Cooper turned and looked where
they were looking.  
    Coming
into the bar, not from the front door but from a back door they didn’t know the
bar had, was Reno Gabrini.   He wore
shades over his eyes even though it was late evening, and had two burly bodyguards
walking just behind him.   Cooper’s heart
dropped.   Jimmy’s heart soared.
    Cooper
looked at him.   “You said you wasn’t
calling your old man, Mack!   You said you
was calling Miss G.”
    “That’s
who I called,” Jimmy said, pretending to be just as annoyed.   “She must have phoned him.”  
    Jimmy,
in truth, was banking on Trina’s loyalty to his father when he first offered to
phone her.   Coop and Ash were so dead-set
against him phoning Reno, that they viewed Trina as a good alternative.   They didn’t know, but Jimmy did, just how
close and loyal she was to his father.
     Reno
removed his shades when he arrived at the booth.
    “How
did you know I was here?” Jimmy asked his father.
    While
Reno’s guards surveyed the half-empty room, Reno surveyed the threesome in the
booth.   That fast-behind Ashley was
behind this shit, he could feel it in his bones.   “Let’s go,” he said.
    “Go?   But Dad you don’t understand.   My friends need help.   I was playing basketball when---”
    Reno
looked at his son.   “What are you
deaf?   What did I just say?   Let’s go.   Now.   All three of yous .”   He added this
he in his still-distinct Italian-style Jersey accent and phrasing.  
    All
three stood and followed Reno as he headed back out the way he entered.   The bodyguards then followed them.
    Jimmy
could see two cars parked behind the bar: his father’s Porsche and a dark SUV.   Cooper and his sister glanced at each other
when they saw the two vehicles.   Especially the Porsche.   Reno
Gabrini was the last human being on earth Cooper wanted Jimmy to call!   He knew Mr. Gabrini.   He’d seen him around the PaLargio ever since
he first started hanging with Jimmy Mack.   He saw how he would lose his cool at the drop of a hat and everybody in
that entire organization acted as if they were scared of their own shadows
whenever he was anywhere near them.    That was why they put the body in Jimmy’s car.   They were certain Jimmy would be too afraid
to call his father if he was knee-deep in it too.   But, Cooper thought angrily, he called him
anyway!
    Jimmy,
however, felt as if his back was against the wall when he decided to put that
body in his car.   Ashley would have been
accused of murder and who knows what else if the cops would have found that
body in her house.   He couldn’t let that
happen.   He would take some serious heat
for it, especially now that his father was involved, but he couldn’t sit back
and let Ashley end up in prison because of his fear and inaction.
    Reno
walked over to his Porsche and leaned against it, folding his muscular arms as
he did.   He was dressed in an expensive
suit, but a full day of work and more work had rendered it rumpled and stained,
which was usually the case with Reno and clothes.     
    Jimmy
and his friends followed Reno, rumpled clothes and all, while the bodyguards walked
around the place to make sure it was still a secure location for Reno to be in.  
    “Okay,
talk,” Reno said when all three stood in front of him.
    Cooper
and Ashley looked at Jimmy.   Jimmy was
always amazed at how tough-talking Coop