Chapter THIRTY ANDRES

The car ride was ripe with emotions.

Hers and mine.

I was so amped up about her coming face to face with her ex, it was all I could do to keep on breathing.

I was used to pushing myself. To facing uncomfortable situations head on. But I didn’t like the idea of Ellie being in the same room as him.

That motherfucker owed me a debt, and I intended to collect.

Just not yet.

Not today.

I had to remind myself of that frequently as the driver maneuvered the crowded streets.

There was the usual rush hour traffic, plus the dinner crowd out and about on the glittering streets of Manhattan.

I understood the reason behind the sparkly shit. It was a little Mica and Silicarb mixed with the cement and asphalt.

Really, who needed to know all that?

To a kid from Hoboken, New York was still the Big Apple. It was a concrete jungle.

If you could make it there, well, you knew the rest.