Page 53 of Lordes

“It’s her.” She blurted with a blank expression.

“How do you know? You have no way of knowing who I dated.”

“No, I know.”

“Was my number in her contacts?”

“Probably, I don’t know. I didn’t check.”

“So how do you know?”

“I know all about you. I know you fuck women. When you get tired of them you give them money.”

“That’s not against the law.”

“No, but it’s weird that you gave all those White bitches money and I got nothing.”

Was she serious?“You’re in law enforcement. I can’t offer you money. It could be considered a bribe or something illegal. ”

“Fuck that! You didn’t give me the 10K cause you thought I was trash. You thought I was beneath you.”

“That’s not true at all. You got me completely wrong. I never gave you any thought.” I probably shouldn’t have said that but it was true. She was just the same as the others. Only difference was she was a cop so giving her money just didn’t seem like something I should do.

“Well you’re going to think about me now. I know how much you’re worth. I looked you up. I did a deep dive and it turns out you’re loaded.” She smirked.

I didn’t know what her version of loaded meant. I was surprised by this entire interaction. “Look, what’s going on here?”

“There are two dead women that you murdered.”

I glanced around the diner to see if anyone was paying attention to us. “I didn’t murder anybody.”

“Doesn’t matter. I can make it look like you did.”

“To what end?”

“I can put your rich ass in jail. That’s the end for you tiròn estùpido.”

“Why? Why would you do this?”

“I need to have my payday. You know Chicago cops don’t make that much money.”

“You gave them ten thousand dollars. I need two million.”

“You’re serious?”

“Serious as a motherfuckin’ brain aneurysm.”

“Extortion, that’s where we are?”

“Yes, that’s exactly where we are. Where we’re going and where we’ve been.”

“I didn’t kill those women. There is no evidence that proves I did.”

“You don’t have any idea what evidence I have that can be planted. I used to be vice. I’ve been setting up horny motherfuckers for years. Now that I’m in homicide I have to solve cases.”

“I can go to internal affairs.”

“And tell them what?”

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