“Where’s your sidekick, Crystal?” I said.
“I gave Lamar the weekend off. He wanted to go visit his family, and we didn’t have any filming planned until Monday.”
“What about you?”
“I’m going out to the beach tomorrow, and I’m just going to sit and watch the surf.”
“Mike and I are treating my lieutenants and their spouses to dinner in a little bit. Want to join us? Janet doesn’t have a spouse, so you can round out the party.”
“Sure.”
We’d come to the wine shop in Mike’s car, and we asked Crystal to follow us to Janet’s apartment. When Janet joined us in the car, Crystal left her car at the apartment and got in the backseat with Janet.