'You seem a little preoccupied.'
'I guess I am.'
'Want to talk about it?'
'No big deal, I suppose. Just having a few problems with my business partner.'
'Business partners can be a real pain.'
'Maybe I'll have another drink,' Adam Morrow said. 'I mean, if you don't mind.'
He'd met his new friend just an hour ago in a Village bar. Now he was having drinks in his new friend's apartment. His friend kept casting an anxious eye to the darkened bedroom beyond, but Adam was too worried right now to think about sex.
He just had this awful feeling that finding the note had undone Rick, and that Rick might do something stupid.
Something that could end their perfect record.
'Why don't you let me freshen that up for you?' Adam's new friend said, taking the glass from his hand.
Adam scarcely noticed.
If only he hadn't had to fly to New York at the last minute to take care of a loose end on the last job.
Rick, for all his skills, got so emotional at times that he didn't think clearly.
Early tomorrow Adam would be on a plane headed to Chicago. Just so long as Rick didn't do anything crazy tonight…
'Here,' said Adam's new friend. 'Maybe this'll mellow you out a little.' He smiled. A very white smile. An actor's smile. 'Then maybe we can get to know each other a little better.'