Chapter 21: ConfinementCHAPTER 21
CONFINEMENT
It was Sunday, the day after the fight, and they still had me locked up. I told the cops I wasn’t talking until I got a lawyer, then I used my one call. By the time Mamma Rosa showed up, they had all but convicted me. Three of the Woodside guys had been hauled in, but they weren’t talking. I shot one dead and the other guy took a shot to the arm. I told them what happened. It would have gone better if I had just shot the guy who got Mick, because the other guy had no gun.
Rosa cried. Angie did, too, when she got there. I told her not to worry, and before she left, I gave her a pack of matches. “Put these in Mick’s casket.” She looked at me funny. “He’ll understand.”
Mick had stolen enough lighters to open up a*****e, but he was always askin
