Cruel. Jacob Stone
was done, he handed her back her phone.
“You don’t want to go to the cops or tell anyone about this visit,” he said. “If you do, I’ll find out about it and it won’t go well for you. You understand that, right?”
She bit her lip to keep from crying. Gallo wasn’t sure whether it was out of anger, fear, or relief. He touched her cheek and let his hand linger, enjoying the coolness of her skin and watching her struggle to keep from bolting away from him. A real shame. If he had time, he could have fun with her.
He signaled Stanton with a tilt of his head. Without another word the two men left the townhouse. Once they were back in Gallo’s Audi, he picked up Chandler’s little black book from where he’d left it on the center console, and after marking an X next to the redhead’s name he chose the next entry in the book for them to visit. This was a guy in West Hollywood who sold the actor coke. Maybe they’d find Chandler this way, or maybe he’d hear about the actor surfacing somewhere, and he’d get him then—even if he had to fly halfway around the world. He couldn’t afford for Chandler to live long enough to find his way to Big Joe.
Gallo gritted his teeth remembering how Big Joe had acted when he told him about Melanie and the pretty boy actor. He’d been sure that Big Joe would want the actor chopped up into fish bait and dumped into the Pacific. Instead, Big Joe wanted the actor found so he could talk with him. Gallo was embarrassed for the mob boss. If nothing else, it showed just how soft Penza had become, and how badly he needed to be replaced by someone with some balls on him.
But that was for later. For now Gallo had to make sure Penza never talked with that actor. Benjamin Chandler had to disappear from the planet. Gallo’s own life depended on it.
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