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Billy inserted himself between Katie and the woman, now on the floor “Get some air,” he said to Katie
“I’ll fucking sue!” Ramona cried “I’ll sue your slut ass!”
Billy offered his hand to the woot back in the chair “Ra for it, or you can tell us where it is and on’t have to Now, I know you have a boss You think he’s gonna be happy with you if you h walls and rip up carpets?”
A little good cop, bad cop It was only a cliché because it was true
Ra from the slap, a sizable welt on her cheek, shook her head as if exhausted “You’re not gonna find a little black book,” she said
“We’ll search your house next We’ll have no choice”
“I want a lawyer,” she said
Et voilà! Thus endeth the conversation
“Keep the uniforms here until they find it,” said Billy to Sosh “Let’s find a judge and get a warrant for her house We’ll find that little black book sooner or later”
A BIG BUST, so a big night out to follow Billy and Kate went to the Hole in the Wall, a cop bar off Rockwell near the Brown Line stop A couple of retired coppers bought the Hole ten years ago, cleaned it up, got word out about giving cops discounts on drinks, and the place thrived froe in the corner and put up a ht that was so popular it turned into a regular thing Now the place drew e bunnies who followed them; some people caht this place rivaled the comedy clubs on Wells Street
When Kate and Billy walked in, they were greeted like royalty The two of the Billy, slapping hi hi shots of bourbon or tequila in front of hi
m—which he accepted, of course, because he wouldn’t want to be rude By the time he and Kate had found a table, he was half drunk, his hair was mussed like a little kid’s, and he was pretty sure he’d pulled a muscle or two
“I think they heard about the arrests,” he said to Kate, as similarly disheveled
Two pints of ale appeared in front of them on the tall table, with a stern direction that their ht” Billy raised the pint and took a long swig, savored it Yeah, it was a big night The reporters were all over it The archbishop? Thefor anyone to pass up Half the cops in the joint right noere passing around s news articles and Facebook and Twitter posts The mayor hadn’t been friendly to the cops’ union or to their pensions, so nobody was shedding a tear over his downfall The archbishop—that was another story Some people were upset, especially the devout Catholics on the force, of whom there were many, while others used the opportunity to rain some cynical sarcasm down on the Church, some of which bordered on the politically incorrect Several cops noted that at least this tiht with a female, not an altar boy
Kate was enjoying herself She was an action junkie, ave that woun to her head within the hour She enjoyed detective work, but she really enjoyed the busts, the confrontations, the thrill of the ood-versus-evil thing, but it was more than that for her It was a contact sport