‘Seriously, you thought I had actually done that? Oh, please!’ he said, pretending to sound disappointed in them.
‘You’re a real bastard, you know that?’ said Tina, slapping him on the shoulder.
Steel explained that he had come across the homeless guy, Jerry, in an alleyway while sifting through the garbage. Hoping to score some ‘disposable items’, as he put it. And now Jerry was about to help break the case, or so Steel hoped.
‘So, why him?’ Tina scrutinised Jerry, wondering how she had ever mistaken him for Steel. They’d laugh about it one day. Jerry leant forward from his resting place and shot her an evil look.
‘Now, I didn’t mean it like that,’ she responded, returning the look, waiting for Jerry to lie down again. ‘What I meant was, why go for the small guy and not the thin one y
