Get back out here."
Once the guy was again standing by the car, Cade indicated the guy on the
ground and suggested that they take their trash with them. After another stunned
moment, two of them moved toward the man on the ground.
Cade stepped over to put a foot on the guy's gun and said, "This stays. He
doesn't need it anymore."
Without argument, they stuffed their leader into the back seat of the car
and sped away. Cade put his gun away as Mandi seemingly flashed into existence
in front of him.
Looking at her, he asked, "Change your mind about fish?"
"I heard a shot as I entered the restaurant. I saw what happened, Ed."
"If you heard a shot before you looked, you didn't see why it happened. The
guy put a gun to my head. That gun."
Cade moved his foot and took out one of his paper towel hankies to pick up
the gun.
"Who were they?"
"Friends of the guy we disarmed. Look, I'm still kind of hungry and the cops
will probably show up soon. Unless you want to spend the next few hours talking
to them, you'll get us out of here."
"Us? You're the one who was involved in the fight.
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