Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman

Author:Reed Farrel Coleman [Coleman, Reed Farrel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9781932557411
Publisher: Gale Group
Published: 2007-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

I USED A booth on Mermaid Avenue and got Melendez at home. If I felt weirder making a call in my life, I’d be damned if I could remember it. For fuck’s sake, talk about mixed emotions. My guts were twisted in bunches. I had stood there for five minutes with the phone in my hand, rehearsing what to say. But there was no rehearsing a conversation that might cover lust, guilt, murder, and betrayal. When she picked up, I found I could not speak.

“Moe, Moe is that you?”

“Yeah.”

“You don’t hate me?”

“I feel a lot of things about you, Carmella, but hate isn’t one of ’em. I think I wish it was. Things would be easier that way.”

“You were all I thought about today.”

I ignored that in self-defense. “That’s about to change.”

“Why?”

“Malik’s girl, Kalisha . . .”

“What about her?”

“Someone blew her head off with a shotgun about fifteen minutes ago.”

“How’d you find out?”

“I was standing across the street.”

“What happened?”

“We talked, Kalisha and me, and we agreed to meet again to talk some more. I walked toward my car and that Camaro that tried to run me down the other day pulled up. She walked over to the passenger door and . . . Bang! Bang! She was a mess. I found the Camaro in flames over by the creek.”

“Why kill the girlfriend?”

“I’ve got some ideas about that. You on tomorrow?”

“Uh huh.”

“Think you can get away from Murphy for lunch?”

“I’ll call you.”

“Okay.”

“Moe.”

“I know,” I said. “I know.”

I said I did, but I didn’t know a goddamned thing anymore.

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