Chapter Twenty-One
WITH MICKEY ABSOLVED from all suspicion – not to mention a similar absolution for Superintendent Bradley and the others who had made the suspects’ list – that evening, Rafferty and his family prepared to celebrate the festive season and Mickey’s own absolution in style.
They all felt they had earned it, Rafferty not least. And even the God that Rafferty considered so vengeful wouldn’t, this time, he felt sure, dare to stick His Almighty nose in and try to cause Rafferty grief as he so often did.
‘Because if you do,’ Rafferty warned the many stars twinkling innocently in the night sky before he got in the car, ‘I really will consider giving into the many temptations your oppo puts in my path and sign up for his army.’ Warning given, he drove off to release his brother
