junkyardteen.

❛     nope.    nobody’s  done  nothin’.    look,  all i heard was that he fell ass over teakettle down the rabbit hole.    if you ask me,  he wasn’t jus’ havin’  one affair.    he was probably havin’  a lot of ‘em.    them respected gentleman types don’t go cruisin’ down skid row t’ get some ass on the  sly.    they got escorts for that.    ‘n  some  of these escorts play dirty,  in more ways than one.     ❜

she’s  protecting  someone.    doesn’t want to give too much  private intel  to the  pigs,  but also somehow feels obligated.    because she  lied  once before.    because she  almost  got linden  killed.

❛     –––––     okay,  so we  established  my people seen him around,  right ?    means  one of two  things.    his paycheck was either goin’ up his nose or  down  someone’s throat.    but either way,  didn’t hear nothin’ ‘bout no  loan - shark  or debt.    couldn’t get in touch with my guy.     ❜

‘     man,   everybody  plays dirty in this damn town,   no doubt.    ain’t nobody ever teach this fool to keep it in his khakis ?     ’       not that someone deserves to die for sleeping around,   but if the girl,   or  girls,   happened to be underage    —    needless to say,   too few of these perverts get what’s coming to them.

he mulls that over for a minute,   because there’s more than a grain of truth to what she’s saying but the pieces still don’t quite fit.    poison doesn’t add up,   isn’t the usual M.O. in cases like these.    women  like to use poison.

‘     debt or no debt,   he pissed somebody off bad enough to kill him.    don’t make  sense,   though,   doin’ him like that.    i mean,   pimps ‘n gangbangers,   you know,   they do it execution - style.   shot to the head    —    boom.    end of story.    this one’s different.     ’