Chapter 8

Mike asked. “Was Jon gay?”

“Jon? Not at all,” Mr. Franklin replied. “He always had female customers, the young ones, coming on to him and when that happened he told them he had a girlfriend.”

“Oh? Have any of you met her?”

“Obviously I haven’t,” Jennie said sourly. “If I had…” She shrugged.

“He never brought her in here,” Mr. Franklin admitted. “Still…”

“Okay. Thanks for the information. Is there anything else you can tell me?” Mike looked between the three of them. They all shook their heads, so he thanked them for their time and left.

His next step would be to visit Far Horizon, but not yet, since it was only one-thirty in the afternoon. He returned to the precinct to do what he should have before going to the restaurant—run checks on Jon Watts to see if anything came up that might explain why someone wanted him dead.

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