Chapter 17

As the men left the motel room to talk and smoke while Ernie kept Ariel company two cars in the street watched the scene quietly. As Leonard and the three men stood outside the motel smoking and talking they started their cars and drove into the parking lot slowly. The two black drug dealers thought Ariel was a good fuck, and thought perhaps another visit to her mother would be fun before they left. The Mexican started dickering about how much Leonard wanted for Ariel, he didn’t think he should pay for Edith as she technically didn’t belong to Leonard. As they talked Leonard saw the two cars pull into the parking lot of the motel.

They were both late model sedans, dark in color and inside each car were two white men. The cars parked several feet away from the four men, one in front of them and the other off to there rear. As the men exited the cars Leonard saw they were dressed in slacks and sports jackets and had the look of police officers, each carried a flashlight in their left hands.

“Shit” one of the black drug dealers muttered.

“Don’t worry bout it, this be my property and we be allowed to have guns on private property. Jus be cool man and lets see what they want. Don’t do nothing ... if they hassle us my lawyers git us out so don’t be doin nothing foolish” he advised the three.