Chapter 13
The needle on the truck’s gas gauge hovered at a quarter of a tank. As much as Andre would have loved to leave Mellowbush behind, he needed to fill up at the Amoco station first if he wanted to make it to the next gas station. This far north, his options were too limited.
Rudy spotted him through the grimy windows and gave him a friendly wave. Though Andre acknowledged the greeting with a nod, his stomach dropped. He didn’t look forward to going into the store to pay for his gas. In and out. That’s what he wanted. What he needed. The sooner he got out of Mellowbush, the colder the trail would be when Perry found it. But Rudy was a talker under the worst of circumstances. The faster Andre tried to get out, the harder Rudy tried to keep him in.
If only Thomas hadn’t run that ba
