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Before going to the restaurant, Richie drove Rebecca back to his house. As they entered the garage, a black SUV driven by the ABC liquor investigators pulled onto the driveway.
Richie was about to push the button to shut the garage door on them when the one named Waddey sprang from the vehicle, waving a slip of paper and said, “Uh, uh.”
“What’s that?” Richie stepped out of the garage. Rebecca joined him.
“We have a warrant to search these premises for illegal liquor.”
“Illegal liquor?” Richie turned to Rebecca. “And here I thought Prohibition had ended. Aren’t we lucky that our government is here to protect us from something so heinous?”
She couldn’t help but grin at his sarcasm. Still, she worried about the ABC men’s reaction to Uncle Sil’s wine. Richie hadn’t explained anything
