Chapter 28WordsTommyI always tried to choose my battles wisely. I didn’t willingly fight if I knew I couldn’t win. I never made the mistake of thinking that I had any real power. Once, I had talked a few g**g members out of kicking my a*s and talked more than one landlord into giving us another week to come up with the rent. Now again, all I had to get out of this were words. I thought best under pressure. Reminding myself to breathe, I leaned forward and coated my comment with approval. “I’m glad to see you are working on the case, even this late at night.” I asked, “That’s why you were here, right?”
He hesitated for a heartbeat, and he picked up the bone I threw him. “Yeah. I’m not going to sleep until I get the rat-bastard who did this to my boy.” He made a couple of annoying clicking
