My breathing turned from heavy to light, I looked at the birds heading east, looking for a much healthy sky to flow free without fearing acid burns. T...e intensity of my gasps and sighs alleviated as a lady decided to block my view using her attractive smile, I stood up and we exchanged formal greetings. She introduced herself as my immediate neighbor, I cursed my unreasonable office timings which leaves me no time to check out a pretty woman living next door. Her name was Mala Sree, she. Voh thori dair baad mere kamre main ayin aur kaha chalo khana kha lo aur ajj mere kamre main hi so jana. Main ghusse se bolla na mujhe khana khana hai aur na app ke kamre main sona hai app chali jao mere kamre se main ne yeh sub kafi oonchi avaz main kaha. Aise vaqt main rehana mujha raazi kar leti thi lekin ajj vo bhi nahi thi. Agle din main so kar utha to rehana vapis aa chuki thi. Uss nain mujhe salam kia aur mere sur par thaparh maar kar bhag gyi shararat se. Main bhi uss ke peeche bhaga.. ’ he answered. ‘Sir, it’s not that god-damned paper-pusher Brownlee’s job or business to be saying who is in Vice, MCD, or Precinct assignments. He is not the Police Commander, I am. And he’s full of shit, sir. Sharples is a dirty cop, I’m working to get the goods on him and take his ass down, and until that happens, there is no way on God’s green earth that he is coming to MCD. Lt. Croyle wants Sharples out of Vice, so of course she’d love that swap. But I’ll bet my new house that Lt. Perlman. The next morning at five, she was waiting in the parking lot for me.“So how did it go with Tonya?” I asked.“Fine, I didn’t tell her. I’ll leave her a note on her computer, if I leave,” she said.I didn’t plan to tell her how to leave town. That was very much up to her. I didn’t think it would come to that, but it was none of my business. Some things were my business, but her relationship with Tonya wasn’t one of them.We rode the twenty mile route in town. After the ride we stopped for biscuits.