“Go ahead and don’t,” Richard said, and kept on walking.

The screen door slammed.

Ethan came down the porch steps two at a time.

“You’re making a mistake you can’t buy your way out of.”

Richard opened the passenger door of the blue Ford.

It caught halfway the way it always did, and he lifted it with his hip.

“I have people,” Ethan said.

“I have people who pick up on the first ring, Richard.