Chapter 114

That was then, this was now. I didn’t find alcohol and become sloshed. I didn’t stray from my dry path and obtain a drink. Instead, I had a better idea, a substitution in my life, and a special something that I desired, finding it more important than drink.

If I haven’t learned anything in my life, I’ve learned that you have to go after what you want. And what I wanted was the guy who owned the Linear Bar, every part of him, inside and out.

Since Tal was still working with me on the Evan Sting case, I had every reason to go over to his bar and have a talk with him. There were names I wanted to run past him on the subject of the murder, and needed to know if he knew anything about the list of suspects I had drummed up. I picked up my notebook, a pen, and popped a baseball cap on my head. Within a matter of seconds I walked out of my agency, locked it up behind me, and went to visit the man of my dreams.

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