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jeans).
    Denver had killer weather, as in nearly
perfect. Summers were hot but usually at night it cooled off enough
to sleep under a cover. Spring and Fall were volatile and allowed
for variety in wardrobe. Winter was never too cold because there
was no moisture in the air. The occasional blizzard was a bummer
and sometimes there were snowstorms in July but nearly every day
was sunny and the blue skies of Denver could not be beat.
    We’d already called Duke, like, a gazillion
times. Duke and Dolores were visiting Dolores’s parents in Pagosa
Springs and they were supposed to be home in the morning but had
still not arrived. I didn’t know Dolores’s parents’ number or her
maiden name. We were stuck on that score.
    I found Duke’s disappearance curious and a
little scary. Though Duke had been known to go walkabout, except it
was walkabout on a Harley.
    Duke didn’t do cell phones and I was loath to
go to Evergreen. Although Rosie would likely be there or go there,
at least eventually as that was where the diamonds were, so might
Lee and I had decided I was definitely back to avoiding Lee.
    I had not come to terms with this abrupt
about-face and needed time to process it.
    Who was I kidding?
    There was no processing going on.
    Lee and I were not gonna happen.
    I hated to break Ally and Kitty Sue’s hearts
but I’d seen Lee tear through a variety of women’s lives and I
wasn’t going to be one of them.
    These days, he was never home.
    I had no idea what he did for a living but I
was pretty sure it was dangerous.
    And he was way too damn cocky.
    Ally and I were both staring at Rosie’s house
and I was trying to pluck up the courage to drive to Evergreen and
maybe have a scary faceoff with Lee that I had to have the cojones
to win when someone tapped on the back passenger window.
    “Shit!” I jumped and shouted.
    “Sorry. Didn’t mean to scare you.”
    In Ally’s window was a nice-looking man,
though a wee-bit steroid ridden and overdeveloped in the chest area
but he had a good haircut, shirt, tie, slacks.
    “We’re a bit jumpy. We’ve had kind of a rough
day,” Ally explained, smiling her flirty smile.
    Conversely, although Ally could head bang
with the best, she was a White Hat type of gal. She liked the good
boys. She liked preppies and corporate types and definitely men in
uniform. She understood a good guitar riff but she liked her men
clean-cut and ties and uniforms drove her wild.
    “You lookin’ for Rosie?” the man asked.
    I blinked.
    Were we that obvious?
    “Uh, yeah,” I replied.
    He nodded. “I live over there.”
    He pointed in the vague direction of “over
there” and both Ally and I followed his finger, not sure precisely
which house “over there” was his then looked back to him.
    “Is Rosie in trouble?” the guy asked.
    “Does Rosie get in trouble, do you know?” I
asked in return.
    The guy shook his head. “Not that I know of.
Quiet guy. Killer coffee.”
    We all nodded.
    “I’m Gary,” he said.
    Ally extended her hand. “Ally,” she said and
then she pointed to me, “and this is India.”
    Upon hearing my name, he turned and looked
over his shoulder and gave a nod.
    Ally and I turned and looked over our
shoulders too.
    Too late.
    Before I could react to the two men running
toward our car, my door was wrenched open, I was dragged out and I
let out a howl when the backs of my legs were ripped from the hot
leather seats.
    I stopped my howl midway with an “oof”
because I hadn’t taken my seat belt off and when the guy yanked me
out, my belt jerked me back.
    “Jesus, Teddy. Release the belt,” another man
said.
    I took this opportunity to scream.
    Teddy dropped me, I hit the side of the seat
and I used the steering wheel to pull myself back into it.
    Ally had already been hauled out the other
side, she wasn’t screaming and that scared the shit out of me.
    I had no time to look for Ally as Teddy’s
hands came around to undo the belt and I bent forward and bit