Chapter 60

“Doesn’t make him any less of a dick.”

Ray patted my shoulder. “Maybe we can be a bit more constructive here, Barry.”

“His husband tried to kill me. His husband is a dick. How much constructingcan we do here, Ray?”

He nodded, thoughtfully. “Why are you involved in all this? Is this what you were hired to do, to uncover a drug ring?”

A sigh burst forth. I shook my head. “I’m involved, at least now, because I care about you, about all of you. Or, you know, most of you.” Not Arthur or Auntie or Pearl, but the rest of them, sure. Even though most of them double-crossed me. Not that I knew that when I decided to keep on investigating, but still.

His sigh echoed mine. Chad made it an unhappy trio. “To help us is to harm us,” he said.

I thought to object. I quickly thought the better of it. “Auntie has something on each of you. If I turn her in, if the drug ring goes bust, all your secrets potentially come out.”