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Chapter 63

Focus. Don’t look obvious. Remember Mom and Dad.

His palms were sweaty. He didn’t bother hiding when he wiped them off on his pants. If would-be customers noticed, it might put them off from bothering him before Sandora showed up. Or his parents. How was this going to work? Would Sandora make him go with him, then make a call to let them go? That’s how it usually happened in the movies. One of them could always show up first, too, with the other to be released once Eli did as he was told. In the back of his mind lurked the very real possibility that Sandora was blowing smoke and his parents were already dead, but he didn’t dwell on that. He couldn’t. He’d make a run for it right here and now, otherwise.