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his operation for years. Very low level. Other people do his dirty work. So he is unlikely to be arrested or killed in the next thirty days. You’re just going to have to trust me on this.” Christopher was pleading now. Not a good move. Reese didn’t appreciate weakness.
    “Oh, good. The fact that it’s unlikely makes me feel so much better.” She crossed her arms, leaned back, and glared.
    “Do you have any ideas about transferring fifteen million in gold bars into a bank account without anyone noticing?”
    Reese didn’t have an answer for that.
    “He is right,” Breno said quietly. “This will work. You just need to trust us.”
    “I don’t know you and I don’t trust you.” Reese stood. “But we don’t have much of a choice now, do we? I’ll be ready to leave for Florida in an hour.” With that, she turned and left.
    Ryan and I stood. I may have liked Breno and Christopher, but I wasn’t going to risk Reese for them.
    “Sorry. She’ll chill,” Ryan said.
    It was the only platitude we could offer.

Chapter Six
     
    “I am so fucking bored,” Ryan said.
    “For real.”
    “How long do we have left on our shift?” he asked.
    “Three hours,” I said.
    “Three hours? Three hours!” He slumped back against the door of the car, closed his eyes, and stuck his tongue out. “That’s it. I’m dead. See? Dead.” He stuck out his tongue again, farther this time.
    “I told you stakeouts are boring.”
    “Yeah, but you didn’t tell me I couldn’t smoke. And it’s hot.”
    “We’re in Miami. What did you expect?” I asked.
    “It’s January.”
    “It’s not even eighty.”
    “Liar. It’s totally hotter than that,” he said.
    “No, it isn’t.”
    “Yeah huh.”
    “Nuh-uh.”
    “I’m hungry.”
    “You ate an hour ago,” I said. “And you’re only doing half a shift. I still have seven hours left.”
    “You should be careful. You might die of starvation.”
    “Reese will bring me food when she takes over for you.”
    “You guys will probably just make out for three hours. And I’ll still be bored. I’ll just be bored in a hotel room.”
    “You could go be bored on the beach,” I said.
    “Whatever.”
    “Dude.”
    “What?” Ryan asked.
    “Dude. There.” I nodded at the house we were watching.
    “Shit.”
    We watched the garage door open. There was movement inside, but we couldn’t see much. A car backed out onto the street. White-gold Lexus. I let it drive past us. A woman was driving. There was a kid in the backseat.
    “She’s not even hot,” Ryan said.
    “Shut up. She’s good-looking. Not hot like Reese, but still.”
    “I can’t believe you threw my sister away for a chick who isn’t even hot.” He sounded disgusted.
    “I was in pain. She was nice,” I said.
    “Asshole.”
    “Tool.”
    “Should we follow her?” Ryan asked.
    “Yeah.” I waited until the car was up the street, then pulled out and started following it. “Call Christopher. Give him a heads up that we might need help with a tail.”
    “On it.”
    Ryan got out his phone and dialed Christopher. I gave him street names as we turned through city streets. We didn’t go far before the Lexus pulled into a small parking lot. I drove past.
    “You see where she’s going?” I asked.
    “Yeah. Grocery store.”
    “Tell Christopher.”
    He did. I pulled over a couple blocks away. Ryan hung up.
    “Christopher is outside the store. He says there’s only one entrance.”
    “Where’s Breno?”
    “Finding somewhere else to watch.”
    I looked in my mirrors. “I think there’s a coffee shop across the street.”
    “I’ll text him.”
    We waited some more. It was boring.
    “Christopher took off.” Ryan read his texts. “Breno will tell us when she leaves.”
    “We tailed her already. Christopher should follow her this time.”
    “Okay.” Ryan started typing.
    “I’m heading back to the hotel. We can switch cars and go back to the house.”
    “Cool.”
    We had rented three cars, a