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"Evelyn Wasn’t that the redhead you ot some nasty venereal disease whenever you see her, which you probably have," Kieran told us helpfully

"Wait I didn’t fuck her, and I don’t have VD"

"Yeah, try telling John that e’re doing up Con’s house together," Liam chuckled

"Fuck Can’t you find soh I liked the idea of working with someone ould keep Tommy’s mouth in line "If you didn’t sleep with her, why does she hate you?" I asked

"None of your fucking business," he returned

Noas intrigued Usually Toirl ed like I wasn’t interested I’d just ask Eh

An hour later everything went to shit I’d stopped by our place to grab a snack before going to collect Em from the cafe Out of habit I emptied the mailbox but as soon as I saw the brown padded envelope I kneas another gift from Frank It was addressed to Em but I tore it open anyway Out fell a polished wooden box and I opened it to see a dia expensive In with it was another typed note that simply read:

I WAS SAVING THIS FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY

I never ht for the police station

"Tell ," I said to the pale-faced policeman opposite me

"Please don’t swear, Mr O’Connell We’re on the sa we can do The hall tells us who made it, but we’ve telephoned the cos every year They keep track of sales but not who purchased each individual product We can test the box for fingerprints, but given that Mr Thoht it, it’s unlikely that we can trace this back to hi et some proof that the harassment can be traced back to Mr Tho order, but that’s really all we can do I pinched the bridge of o fuck himself

"Can you test it for prints anyway, please?" I said finally