Page 128 of Privilege

“I know, I know. But look.”

Renzo glanced down at the bags she was holding, and then his gaze widened when she opened them up to show the money inside. Add that two thousand onto the bit of money he had taken from the apartment, and they might be okay for a little while.

“We gotta get rid of the card,” he said.

“Okay.”

“What else do you have on you?”

“Other cards. My cell.”

“It’s all going, too.”

Fine by her.

Renzo sighed, and glanced back at the car.

“What?” she asked.

“It needs to go, too. The car, I mean. There’s cameras all around here. How much do you wanna bet this will be the first place someone comes to when they realize you’re not in the state, they can’t get ahold of you, and this was the last place you used your card.”

Yeah, shit.

The car would be on camera.

So would they.

“Really love that car, though,” Renzo muttered unhappily.

Lucia laughed.

Hell, they had already gone this far.

They did this much.

What was one more thing?

“Why don’t we go find a new one you like?”

“I do know how to boost a car.”

She didn’t doubt it.

• • •

Diego sat on the hood of a black SUV and chugged his chocolate milk while holding his egg sandwich in the other hand. He watched Renzo with a curious eye as his brother moved around the back of the red Mustang they’d parked in a field. Lucia drove the SUV behind Renzo while he took the car. With darkness all around them, all that could be seen in the desolate field was their headlights shining through. They’d gone off the highway, and drove into a rural area for longer than Lucia cared to think about after they’d boosted the SUV from a closed car lot where they parked it in the back, and no cameras could see them.

“What’s Ren doing?” Diego asked.

“Nothing. You eat your food.”

“Okay.”

Diego’s chewing filled the air as Renzo finished his work at the back of the Mustang. Popping open the trunk, he pulled out an orange gas tank, and set it to the ground while holding onto a license plate in his other. Not only had they taken the SUV, they had also taken a license plate from another vehicle in the lot and exchanged it with the one on the car.

They would be highly unlikely to notice for a while that a license plate had been switched. And while the cops would be looking for an SUV with a license plate number that belonged to the stolen vehicle, they now had a different stolen plate to put on the SUV.

It was kind of brilliant, really.