Its been ten years, that bastard better be grateful I shot him in the head just once, lost a leg and now this. Looking at a lady that wants justice for a dead sixteen year old girl who got her neck snapped by someone she claims to be an old boyfriend who was into rough stuff is her words pretty much; She had sex with this guy.
"So you want me to find Frank Dweller, right?" I ask her. The grandmother nods, I can tell she's willing to go broke just to cut this guys nuts off for pounding the girl, but hey? I wouldn't blame her I'd do the same thing after what I heard what this guy did.
"I'll take the case, it's five hundred a week plus if you're late with a payment, there's late payment fees," all she says is:
"Deal,"
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Nailing him to the table of his office was pleasure but it wasn't him he had an alibi. The cops took him for sex with minors she wasn't the only "Queen Bee."
"I'm sorry, he's still dealing with prison time but your granddaughters killer will be taken to the light.
"I hope so," leaving the room Lee, who's detective of this case comes to me.
"You made a grown man cry, now you can rest, do another case that doesn't involve murder,"
"I know Mr. Cop," I tell him, rolling my eyes. Lee just looks and frowns.
"Why don't we both get a couple of egg rolls and some beer? You need to eat," he says like a Mother. The only thing a Mother won't do is offer free beer, egg rolls and sex.
"Lee, it's over, the papers were finalized last Summer remember? You called me Lucifers older sister right after we left the room," Lee just takes my hand and hold it for a moment, the warmth was still there but it was because he always had his hands in his pockets when he was really thinking hard on how to tell me he just wants a night of passion every week. I wanted more so we went our own ways I joined the Navy and he applied to work as a cop. Simple, but true.
"You had to bring up children, I wasn't ready--"
"Now I'm too old to have any,"
"You're not old Viv, you're still the same seven year old Iâjust forget it, we're going to Rads takeout and getting two egg rolls then buying a six pack of buds at seven-eleven to drink at my place, it'll be for our anniversary," What?
"It's been that long? August first was when I saw you looking lonely on the swings, yeah I'll hang but you're paying and I get two extra since you never let me get to drive your Dodge Ram thirty-five hundred truck that you promised ten years ago," I told him with my arms now crossed against my chest. Lee laughs, he knows me.
"Kay, you'll get anything you wish red head princess of mine,"
Sex with Lee was like a hangover not worth dealing with. Then the phone call from the Grandmother.
"Hello?"
"He escaped prison!"
"I'll get some help I'll be right there," I told her then Lee was standing there topless and on the phone.
"I'll be with her for the night, thanks," Lee hangs up his phone then looks at me.
"Can't leave he's out for your head so your on my to-do list,"
"Can't,"
"What do you mean? We just had sex now we can't?" he asks in confusion.
"We have sex after we drink it's like drinking and driving the drink was great but that driving kills me in the end because you never do anything more than leave a it was great note, get out of the room," Lee just leaves with his phone, shirt and shoes and closes the door behind him. Slamming the back of my head against the pillow that's when karma hit. Glass shatters from the window and all I know it was a brick. Lee opens up the bedroom door in alert.
"I heard that!" getting out of bed I quickly dress and I leave with Lee. With the note that came with the brick.
"That's a death threat alright," the captain says to me.
"But why all I did was slam him to a table? Man do men take getting their asses kicked by the opposite sex too seriously,"
"I know, I remember training," Lee says making that remark on how I almost sprained his arm in combat training before the transfer to the Navy, he still acts up about that?
"Enough Detective, Lee needs someone to protect her, I got a friend who mentored me in the Navy days just like she was in, now Miss. Lee, besides Reese, anyone who you worked against that would write this way?"
"Just one, but that was a month after I got my first case solved, he's dead though Lee shot him in self defense because he got a gun and it was either Lee or him so Lee pulled the trigger and he died on the scene," Captain nods and leaves with the baggy with the note inside. Walking to the window I looked at the streets of the upper east side in the busy New York City, it was late and I got stuck here until Lee got his note to go home with me. Fuck, I need something to eat.
"I got left overs," he says
"Thanks it was good timing because it was too tempting to go to a bar for cheese sticks and either a fish sandwich or a good cheeseburger,"
"You'd eat at the only bar in New York's upper east side, let's go,"