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Coffee Drinkers Preferred Page 247 of 307 the time would come and a coin would be flipping in the air and it could go either way. It was going to be one of us or the other. And if I lost, four people would die. "Right now, Nephi." "You're rattling me. I've got to think." "Nephi, why do you think I sent you off with that gun?" "Just in case I needed it." Isn't that what he had told me? "No, Nephi. I knew. I knew where this was headed before you even left. Do you get it? You are exactly where you need to be to do what needs to be done." "What the hell are you saying?" "I'm saying Cox was supposed to be dead a few days ago in Reno. That's what I'm saying. I figured you be watching' from outside and see him sneaking up and that you'd walk up to him and do what needed to be done." I was getting closer to Judah, a big boulevard with lights so bright you would think it was day. I slipped the gun into my pocket and walked several storefronts away from the corner and turned around and stopped. Cox turned the corner and saw me looking at him. We were separated by two used bookstores and a juice joint. He just glared at me. People were walking by us, cars filled the boulevard, completely unaware of our little drama. "What?" I said into the Steve-phone.