“Where the fuck is this Billy hump? I can’t believe this hillbilly asshole thinks he can get away with swindling me.”

“Do you think he went around you to the buyer? Cut out the middleman?”

“I don’t see how; how would he know who that is? No, something else is going on; maybe he wanted the girl for himself.”

Yeah, that sounds more like it. He’d been acting suspiciously ever since I first mentioned him bringing her to me like I was taking away his favorite ...