I'll Eat When I'm Dead by Barbara Bourland

Author:Barbara Bourland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2017-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Cat and Bess perched awkwardly on the edges of two metal chairs, their hands still cuffed behind them, while Grant Bonner sat across from them.

“Are you okay?” he asked immediately.

Bess looked at him sheepishly. “We’re fine, just uncomfortable. Thanks for coming.”

“I spoke with the DA,” he replied. “They aren’t pressing drug charges pending further cooperation, but your custody was deviated to Central Holding because of outstanding arrest warrants. You both got tickets for biking on the sidewalk in April. Because the fine wasn’t paid, it turned into an arrest warrant.”

“We figured that part out over the last ten hours,” Bess said. “When can you get us out of here?”

“The officer who originally arrested you both wasn’t aware that you were already cooperating with the department—he was from a different precinct. He ran your licenses and took you here. I checked with Citibank and they confirmed the payments went through last Friday, but the NYPD’s credit card processor hadn’t updated their system. We still need to get you in front of a judge and show them the bank’s confirmation before you can go home.”

“What?” Their jaws dropped open.

“Yeah,” Grant said, shaking his head and holding his palms to the sky. “This is the system. You’re in it now.”

“You can literally show it to them on your phone,” Bess pleaded. “Let me log in.”

“It doesn’t matter if you show it to a guard,” he explained. “You need to show it to a judge, and there are no judges here between 5:00 p.m. on Friday and 7:00 a.m. on Monday.”

“How much longer are we going to be here?”

“Again, the judges aren’t in chambers until Monday at 7:00 a.m.”

Bess thought she was going to burst out crying then and there. “That can’t be possible. Today is Saturday. We’re not safe in here. What if one of their henchmen decides to shank us or something?”

“You should be happy to know that nothing actually indicates this was more than a beauty company. Sure—they used Schedule I felony substances in the manufacturing of their products—but the organization appears to be pretty narrow. It wasn’t a drug front so much as a clever business plan with a healthy revenue stream. Plus, the women in your cell are two old prostitutes, a pregnant woman who stole a car, and a nineteen-year-old from Park Slope who let her dog off leash. I think you’ll be fine.”

“Do the Bedford Organics people suspect anything? To be fair to us, they did get us pretty high before we got arrested.”

“I doubt it. Someone videoed the arrest on Bedford. Bess, you were yelling ‘They’re trashing our rights,’ whatever that means; and Cat, you hissed like an animal and spit on the officer who handed you off to the clown that brought you here.”

“Matthew Lillard yells that in Hackers. It’s all I could think of,” Bess replied.

Cat was shaking her head and laughing. “I forgot about that. Verisimilitude, man. Look it up.”

“You weren’t exactly protesting in Birmingham.” He laughed, too, but nicely. “You were arrested for buying face cream with ecstasy in it.

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