Chapter 37

“And?”

“And, any night that Lucy and Auntie work, no matter what the schedule is, Auntie will go on before Lucy. Not necessarily directly before, but before. Always, every schedule.”

“Forgive me, I’ve just ejaculated and am still a bit loopy,” he said. “Please explain.”

“It’s a connection,” I said. “A pattern. And not some random pattern, but an intentional one. Lucy makes these schedules. Auntie enforces them. For some reason, Auntie always goes on first and Lucy always follows.”

“And?” he repeated.

I paused. “Well, I, um, I don’t know the and. All I’m saying is, Auntie uses the filing cabinet to store crystal meth. Or at least has, at some point. Lucy has the key to that filing cabinet. The two of them intentionally create a performance schedule. These things all must be connected.”

“But you were hired to find out if Lucy is cheating on Arthur, not if Lucy is somehow connected to drug dealing.”