The motel was in the undergrowth between two weedy towns. You could see the neon sign from the road. We used it as a safe house, but the man on the run didn’t know the room was bugged and I was there to extract what I could. I fumbled with his belt. He said, “Do you mean this, or are you handling me?” I could see he felt something. It had been building …
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