Nina decided to go home before Erica woke and began getting ready for school—so much for my forty-two-dollar investment in French wine. I went to bed, yet only managed a couple hours of sleep before the phone jolted me awake.Heavenly spoke breathlessly, with genuine alarm in her voice. If she was acting, she was damn good at it. “McKenzie, two men … when I was getting dressed, two men … I saw them at the window. One of them tried to open my door. McKenzie, please help me.”“Are the men still there?”“I screamed. I screamed and yelled that I was calling the police and they left, but McKenzie—they didn’t run. Not like they were scared or anything. They walked away. They walked away like they were already planning to come back.”“Did you call the police?”“No … I … it’s about the gold, and I—”“It’s not necessarily about the gold,” I said.Heavenly hesitated for a moment, said, “Oh, God, I didn’t think,” paused again and said, “Will you come over?
