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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred Page 248 of 307 "What in the hell do you think these people are paying for? That's a lot of money you pissant. They want this problem taken care of and I told them that we could take care of it." "Well damn it Steve you could have told me." "You didn't need to know. I'm sorry that you need to know now. I'm sorry. Don't get all teary eyed, Nephi. There's always more." "You hired me to kill a man?" I said with incredulity. "Well, I figured you would not have much choice in it. I know you aren't a cold-blooded killer, Nephi, but this guy already put you in the hospital. Don't you get it? He's going to kill you. " "Steve, you knew what you were doing all along?" Cox watched from the corner, frozen. "Nephi, I had no idea that you would have lunch with Sariah or that she would like you. That was your mistake. I just figured that you would have to kill him in the course of trying to keep her safe. That's why I sent the gun with you. You don't have a license to carry, by the way. I lied." "I figured that. Shit, Steve, you could get me killed. This was wrong." "If you hadn't have stopped her from killing him this afternoon our work would be done. She'd be safe. You'd be thirty grand richer and I could finally relax. You think this has only |