Fifty-Boy
18
Up To Something
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| She Could Take Him Or Leave Him |
Wilmont Mathers was Detective Lieutenant in America's biggest little city. He looked over the railing and said, "Shit, it's cold," cupped his hands and blew into his fingers.The patrol officer driving called out to him, "Forget it, Lieutenant, there's nobody out there. We're the only ones dumb enough to be out on a night like this."
Mathers stood there thinking. "Then why was she out here? And with that excuse for a man. Yeah, I know, her crime-series, she didn't want to be with him alone... What a bunch of bullshit. "
Mathers looked north at the casinos, each a self-contained city, full of noise and yellow light. He said to himself, "She called... She asked for a discreet presence... So what's the problem? Why was she kissing him if she's afraid of him? I don't get it. I don't care what she says, they were up to something, or she was... And I swear I saw something crawling in the shadows... I hate those parasites..." The moon went behind a cloud. He shivered and got back in his car. He said to his driver, "What, so now I'm seeing parasite in the goddamn moonlight?"
For a long time Jake Fiin didn't move. I encircled her shoulder bag and the briefcase like a slug on a beetle. I wondered what was in the bags, but I was terrified of Mathers. He was a tough black ex-Marine with a hard-on reputation when it came to parasites like the Finn-man.After a while the moon got real hight and faded. It must have been 4am. In a Wilson Street alley Jacob Finley finally opened the briefcase and it began to rain.
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