.. Just like we practiced?" She listened a bit more and I watched her face harden.I had already taken out the micro recorder to play for her but some ...nstinct made me start recording when she said "Please, Mike, not here." Okay, but you'd better be here, this is going to be ugly... Okay, I love you, too."She hung up her phone and gave me a look that I'd never seen. It was an implacable, denigrating stare. "I'm going to leave you, shrimp dick. I can't live with a wimp, and I can't live with a. . right away. Before Hanson got the wrong idea. It was then that Billie realized Hanson had been watching her again, and she gave him a weak smile. His hip jutted out and he was rubbing a hand slowly back and forth across his broad chest."I been thinking about you and I got a theory."Billie shrugged. "Oh?" The trouble with you is all your life people been telling you never let a niggah boy touch you." He put his hands on his hips and scratched one leg with the sole of his foot. "So now you're. I made a mistake. The address is 14305 River Street." Okay, that's only four blocks away, so I am inclined to believe you. How many are there in you gang?" There are 22 of us now since you took down Big Al and his two buddies. All of them are at headquarters waiting to hear from us." Excellent, that means that there are 20 at the headquarters because two or you are here. Is that correct?" Yeah, that is correct. Please tell that bitch, er woman, to let go of my balls. She is hurting me all the. I could simply put Lucas and Eve on it and I would know in a day. The young woman could read that confidence in my face. She wrote a name on the back of my pickup receipt.From the laundromat Eve and I continued on to dinner at the Dog House. It was the restaurant where I had met Gunny. Even if it hadn't held memories of Gunny, it had memories of my dad, so I held it in an almost reverence. There were the usual collection of customers, not that there was anything usual about the Dog House's.