“I knew you liked me….you had that same look Carm did back when she was a Fed…..”

“Get out of here….don’t let me find you again….I will arrest you”

“No you won’t…..Carm didn’t….”

So Shane called in the tip. Bette sent everyone under the sun in to the warehouse. The flames were so intense that we all had to run back out. The building blew up seconds later. Two days later back in California I got a call from Carmen. She told me she was afraid for Shane that she was going to meet Conrad Voynow on her own. She wanted my help as backup. She didn’t want Shane to know. Could I help?

I said yes. Bette was sleeping next to me she didn’t stir much. I slipped out of her embrace walked over to the bathroom and called Armstrong and told him I got a break on the Morales case could he meet me at LAX and get us a flight to Honolulu.

Ch 13

“What was it like?”

“What was what like… who is this?”

“Come on Shane you haven’t figured it out yet?”

“Where is Marco?”

“He is playing….”

“So who the fuck are you? Have we met?”

“Nah….I never had the pleasure of meeting the thing my wife was sleeping with. Do you even care that she is dead?”

“……That who is dead?”

“Dana.”

“………….”

“No sharp witty replies? No tough girl routine…..So what was it like fucking my wife, corrupting my wife? What was it like?”

“You’re Dana’s husband…Conrad….”

“Yeah…”

“I didn’t kill her…….”

“Yes you did. You and that degenerate life of yours….you killed her.”

“Havoc killed Dana.….I loved Dana once….”

‘Yeah well I love Dana still.”

“So what happened to the games?’

“We are playing right now…..you know Shane you are not as clever as you think you are. And you are still a degenerate. That was a lovely ceremony you had with your brain dead girlfriend on that beach. She is the one who you left my Dana for. ….. You took from me Shane. And now I am taking from you. Instead of taking care of your child you went and had a three-way with another one of the married women on the world. A degenerate corruptor of other men’s wives……disgusting sinful bitch. Did you know that the F.B.I thinks you did something to your kid? They froze all of your money….’