Chapter 38

It was two full days before Randy saw anyone from the O’Connell family again. The last he’d seen them, Vaughn had been walking out of the diner with Lyle in tow, and the two of them had climbed into Vaughn’s truck and been gone before Randy could follow. Though Vaughn did have a chat with the cook that had watched the two of them argue, he’d seemed surprisingly cool and in control when he’d collected Lyle from the table they shared.

The only assumptions Randy could make concerning the absence of life at the O’Connells’ place were that a) they had moved, or b) Vaughn was, for whatever reason, so pissed off with Randy over what had happened that he’d put a kibosh on life outside the house.