Chapter 23: A Fair Trade
Chapter 23
A Fair Trade
The phone rang at 9:30. “This is Gino.”
“Are you still there?”
“Yeah, Coop. I’m here. Where the hell did you think I’d be?”
“I wasn’t sure. Winthrop must have called everybody he knew, and they all called the chief, and the chief called me.” There was a determined pause. “While I was taking a bath.”
“I didn’t need to know that.”
“Not what you dream about at night is it, Cataldi? Well, I got news for you, getting calls from the chief about you is not what I dream about.”
“Yeah, well, screw Winthrop and his pals.”
“He wants you out of his house. He wants your badge, too.”
“As I said…” I stopped before I got in trouble then said to hell with it. “Coop, this fuckin’ guy has a girlfriend not much older than his daughter. And—”
“How ol
