Chapter 7
As soon as they were up, and had eaten breakfast in the motel’s restaurant, Beau made a call to LeRoy—the man he used to work for before joining Mercer’s organization—using a phone he’d bought as an emergency backup, right after first going into hiding. He’d stored it in his weapon’s case, and hadn’t used it until now—meaning there was no way to trace the call to him. When he finished, he told Rick they were going to get new ID.
“I thought…you said I didn’t need to.”
“I did,” Beau replied, “but I changed my mind. Better safe than sorry, as the saying goes.”
Rick was of two minds about the idea. “If I’m not me anymore, will I be able to drive? And what about getting a job? I mean, yeah, I don’t have any references, but if they want to know where I went to school, or, well, you
