He constrained the thrashing little
beast at arm's length as he continued talking to Mandi.
"Gimme an extra few minutes, ma'am. I have to return something to someone
down here."
Laughing, Mandi said, "So I see. Good collar, Officer Ed."
The woman arrived to collect her child and Cade got underway again. On the
fourth floor landing, he thought he heard voices and looked up and down the
stairwell. Nobody either way.
He turned a bit and listened a little harder. Some guy was trying to arrange
a rental car. The other voice he heard was apparently that of a rental agent on
a phone, and the voices seemed to be coming from the other side of the fourth
floor hallway door.
No, not the door; to one side of it. Cade stepped that direction and clearly
heard the agent tell the guy that the kind of car he wanted would have to be
brought in from the airport.
The agent's voice was much fainter than the other one, so he probably wasn't
on a speaker phone. That seemed to mean that Cade was listening to both sides of
a conversation over a regular phone or a cell phone.
"Look, I'm in a hurry," said the guy.
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