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Chapters (95)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. One
  6. Two
  7. Three
  8. Four
  9. Five
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
  15. Eleven
  16. Twelve
  17. Thirteen
  18. Fourteen
  19. Fifteen
  20. Sixteen
  21. Seventeen
  22. Eighteen
  23. Nineteen
  24. Twenty
  25. Twenty-One
  26. Twenty-Two
  27. Twenty-Three
  28. Twenty-Four
  29. Twenty-Five
  30. Twenty-Six
  31. Twenty-Seven
  32. Twenty-Eight
  33. Twenty-Nine
  34. Thirty
  35. Thirty-One
  36. Thirty-Two
  37. Thirty-Three
  38. Thirty-Four
  39. Thirty-Five
  40. Thirty-Six
  41. Thirty-Seven
  42. Thirty-Eight
  43. Thirty-Nine
  44. Forty
  45. Forty-One
  46. Forty-Two
  47. Forty-Three
  48. Forty-Four
  49. Forty-Five
  50. Forty-Six
  51. Forty-Seven
  52. Forty-Eight
  53. Forty-Nine
  54. Fifty
  55. Fifty-One
  56. Fifty-Two
  57. Fifty-Three
  58. Fifty-Four
  59. Fifty-Five
  60. Fifty-Six
  61. Fifty-Seven
  62. Fifty-Eight
  63. Fifty-Nine
  64. Sixty
  65. Sixty-One
  66. Sixty-Two
  67. Sixty-Three
  68. Sixty-Four
  69. Sixty-Five
  70. Sixty-Six
  71. Sixty-Seven
  72. Sixty-Eight
  73. Sixty-Nine
  74. Seventy
  75. Seventy-One
  76. Seventy-Two
  77. Seventy-Three
  78. Seventy-Four
  79. Seventy-Five
  80. Seventy-Six
  81. Seventy-Seven
  82. Seventy-Eight
  83. Seventy-Nine
  84. Eighty
  85. Eighty-One
  86. Eighty-Two
  87. Eighty-Three
  88. Eighty-Four
  89. Eighty-Five
  90. Eighty-Six
  91. Eighty-Seven
  92. Acknowledgements
  93. About the Author
  94. Also by David Swinson
  95. Thank you for buying this ebook, published by Hachette Digital.

“We’re going to work this out now, got it? I’ll take care of this gun of yours. No one will find it unless you fuck with me. Now, let’s go over everything one more time.”

Seventy-One

Seventy-One

I’m treating Biddy like a client who needs special handling. Hurley doesn’t need to know everything. That’ll only complicate matters or get me in trouble.

Hurley doesn’t have a life nowadays because of me. He didn’t have a life before, but probably it wasn’t as bad as it is now, with me in it. I owe him a nice dinner, at the very least.

Biddy’s hands are cuffed behind his back. I disposed of the paraphernalia he was carrying, and he gave me the keys to the motel so I could secure his property. Told me there would be nothing in the suitcase to surprise me, like further evidence of a crime. I will turn that over to Hurley if I find it, and Biddy knows it. So I’m confident the motel will be clean. I also put his stolen gun in my stash wall. It’s a weapon I think I’ll hold on to for a while, just in case.

“Take him to Three Hundred, not 3D,” Hurley tells the officer.

I walk up to Biddy before he’s escorted out.

“Can I have a second?” I ask the officer, who turns and looks at Hurley for the answer.

Hurley nods.

“I need to talk to him privately,” I say.

The officer moves out of earshot.

I get close to speak confidentially. “You give up everything to Hurley. Remember not to mention what went down in the motel room, or I’ll mention how it really went down here. I’ll have the gun with your prints on it. You got it?”

“Yes.”

“You do everything like we talked about, and you’ll come out okay. We’ll both come out okay.”

He looks at me with a crooked, awkward half smile. A trusting smile. I smile back like I mean it, because I do, then move away.

“You’ll get my belongings from the motel?”

“Yes, as long as there’s nothing illegal in there.”

“There’s not.”

The uniformed officer escorts him out. Biddy looks over his shoulder to me before stepping into the hallway toward the front door.

“It’ll be okay. Just tell Detective Hurley the truth.”

They exit, leaving the front door open.

It’s bright outside, cloudless, with a big sun.

“What did you have to say to him that you couldn’t say out loud?” Hurley asks.

“Words of comfort.”

“Give me a break.”

“I didn’t want the officer to hear. All I said was to trust you. You’re going to personally paper the case, right?”