Gina ran to tell her date that she had to end the evening early. Kirk felt a little guilty, but not really. She’d only just met the guy, after all. He’d get over it.
Just in case someone was following—that perimeter alarm had made them both a bit paranoid—they played a bait-and-switch, pretending to say goodnight outside the front door of her apartment building. Then he got into his car and drove until he was sure no one was following. He left his car parked at the public landing, where Gina picked him up in her Leaf.
The “secret undisclosed location” turned out to be the private garage of the Blue Drake. Steven Gault, the rock star who had owned it until he died earlier in the year, was a car freak. He had especially loved vintage Cadillacs, and owned several along with an Aston Martin
