“Hmm.” There’s a wealth of judgment in Rivi’s voice, and Penina winces and averts her eyes
“I’Mnot hunting for clues or whatever you and Gabe do,” Rivi informs Penina. Penina nods obediently. “I don’t care about fake names and secret identities.” Penina nods again. “I just want to—”
“Clean out your father’s house. I know.” Rivi has said it 30 times since she’d first asked Penina to join her. Quietly, Penina suspects this is less about cleaning this house and more about Rivi escaping her own house, but she’s a good enough friend to accept it in silence.
It’s been a quiet week, an unusual thing since Rivi’s father’s death. Penina’s working with Rivi on the Boyd case, too busy with that and her actual job to focus on the Moish Garfinkel situation. Gabe hasn’t been working on it since last Sunday, either, when he and Hillel were followed out of Bearwood.
We’ve hit a dead end. He’d sounded spooked over the phone. We know Abba was in Bearwood. We know he was friends with Avigdor. What more is there?
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