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“How else we gonna verify all these rumors about what Fisher been up to?” He leaned forward, hands on his knees and said with a sly s?”

“Sorry I got a little distracted looking through the records” I switched gears to Tina’s case “You think he’ll talk to you?”

“Oh, he’ll talk to me” Little D beamed confidence “Eventually”

His smile made me nervous “You think Fisher had Narsh kill Shanae?”

“With a baseball bat? Hired killers don’t beat people to death”

“It looks more like a crime of passion,” I said “Unless that was the intent”

Little D shrugged and shook his head “Nah Too subtle If Narsh was hired to kill Shanae, he woulda just capped her ass”

Little D’s tendency to alternate between the Queen’s English and street slang was asta rapper Just the kind of guy I needed to helpto talk to Narsh, I want to be there”

“This may not be the friendliest discussion Be better if I handled it and got back to you”

“No,” I said He stared at e “I want to meet him Look at him while he answers the questions Size him up for s I have to do myself”

Little D leaned back and sht You want to onna co about Southern Avenue, babe So you ant me to be there”

I thought about that decaying stretch of road, dividing the worst of DC froe in PG County “Yeah,” I said “I will”

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

With no client -sleeve pullover to the office the next day Casual dress seeh I had other work to do, hts were stuck on Little D’s promise to takeas his office My cases kept h me

For the uot his voice e an audit and check the co to feel like a parrot