Dim Sum Asylum by Rhys Ford

Author:Rhys Ford [Ford, Rhys]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-806-5
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-06-09T04:00:00+00:00

“SHE’S ALREADY gone, MacCormick,” Yamada dolefully informed me through my car’s open window. “Morgue guys took her in about five minutes ago. The casters got the netsuke, and Forensics still has the scene tied up while they go over it. You should just head home and let me handle the witnesses. You’re too close to this one. I can see it all over your face.”

Kingfisher’s was in an uproar when I went by, and no amount of pleading could get me past Yamada, who’d seen me coming and leaned on my car door to stop me from getting out.

“I’ve got to see….” I slammed my fist against the steering wheel, leaving a small dent in one of its curves. The hollowed-out cavity in my stomach ached, filling with a pain I’d grown too accustomed to over the past few years. I was sick of people dying around me and being helpless to stop it. “Yamada, she was my friend.”

“I know, man, but Gaines’d have my ass if I even let you get near the door. That’s the first thing he told me.” His hangdog face melted into a deep sorrowful frown. “I’m sorry, MacCormick, but he was firm about this. You go inside and he’ll peel what little hair I have on my nut sack off with a jar of hot wax. You’ve got to walk away, man. Go find someone—anyone—and hang with them until you’ve got your head on straight. Do you need me to call someone to come get you?”

Jie was more than a friend. More a sort-of cousin I’d snuck into Chinese school with me so we could both sit at the back of the class and make fun of the teacher, who looked more frog than human. I’d shared lunches with her when she’d been hungry and got angry when she’d refused to show me where she lived. I’d known nothing about her family, and she’d refused to come into my house, pointing out my mother was a cop and she pretty much spent most of her time breaking one law or another.

We’d grown apart only when we drifted onto our separate paths, but she’d been there, or at least around, for me during some of the shittiest times in my life. Around was enough for me, and now, when I walked into Kingfisher’s, I wouldn’t see the girl I’d spent afternoons with stealing fresh oranges from graves or eating ourselves sick on the Dungeness we’d fished out of the murky Bay waters. Now she was dead, and I’d probably brought her killer right to her front door.

“No, I’m… where’d they find her?” I pressed Yamada. “Tell me that at least. And where’s Yokugawa?”

“He’d stepped away. A couple of guys were shooting at each other near the end of the street. That drew him and the dogs off the door, and one of the other guys stepped in to cover.” Yamada glanced over his shoulder when a uniformed cop called out his name. “We found him dead against the wall.

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