Oct. 24, 2022
Episode One

A married woman, Lisa Flowers (Catherine Bell, “JAG”, “The Good Witch”), that Tony is in love with, asks for his help finding her missing sister Destiny, in the most dangerous neighborhood in New York City. Tony recruits his unofficial partner, a...
A married woman, Lisa Flowers (Catherine Bell, “JAG”, “The Good Witch”), that Tony is in love with, asks for his help finding her missing sister Destiny, in the most dangerous neighborhood in New York City. Tony recruits his unofficial partner, a champion boxer who moonlights as a private eye, Reggie (Malik Yoba, “Cool Runnings”, “NY Undercover”), to try and find Destiny. It doesn’t take long for them to find themselves on the wrong end of a gun.
Red Meat Village is a production of Voyage Media. The series is produced by Nat Mundel, Robert Mitas, and Dan Benamor. Directed, produced and adapted by Dan Benamor, based on Andrew Bernstein’s upcoming novel of the same name.
Starring Ryan Heppe as Tony, Catherine Bell as Lisa, Malik Yoba as Reggie, Rachel Pate as Monjurrie, Abel Soto as Cortez, Kareem Ferguson as Chill, Luca Malacrino as Stevie, and Tracey Leigh as Destiny. Edited, sound designed, and mixed by Nick Messitte. Original music by Derlis Gonzalez.
If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a five star review in Apple Podcasts or anywhere you’re listening and subscribe now for future episodes.
Red Meat Village is a production of Voyage Media. The series is produced by Nat Mundel, Robert Mitas, and Dan Benamor. Directed, produced and adapted by Dan Benamor, based on Andrew Bernstein’s upcoming novel of the same name.
Starring Ryan Heppe as Tony, Catherine Bell as Lisa, Malik Yoba as Reggie, Rachel Pate as Monjurrie, Abel Soto as Cortez, Kareem Ferguson as Chill, Luca Malacrino as Stevie, and Tracey Leigh as Destiny. Edited, sound designed, and mixed by Nick Messitte. Original music by Derlis Gonzalez.
If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a five star review in Apple Podcasts or anywhere you’re listening and subscribe now for future episodes.
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Voyage, meet village age. You
hear three lunatics robbed the cartel dropping Brooklyn
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last name. I guess I'm not
as blug dead as you are two point
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four million worth of cope. But
someone's stopping and weigh it. Just what
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I heard? What name you're gonna
use in the contest? Humphrey van Waiting?
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Oh why not? Hu? But
see horn swimming two cumbers? Yeah,
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that Humphrey van Waiting just rolls off
the tongue. You and Gale are
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the only ones who know why I
chose that name. You're going down,
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Reggie Worston. You did when you
fought Big Sleep. How long are you
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gonna keep bringing that up? I
wonder the fight didn't not as please you
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sat on that man like he just
slapped your mom. Lose a fight,
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then I'll have something else to bet
on it. See what odds you co
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yet? Yeah right, I don't
have your kind of money, speaking of,
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I'm late to make a couple hundred
bucks to illuminate the minds of our
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youth. Let me know how that
tenure works out. Hey, mine was
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a backhanded compliment. I sighed and
looked up from the manuscript I was working
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on. In a few months,
I'd probably be denied tenure. My first
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book had been well received. My
only shot to retaine employment was to finish
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the second one quickly and effectively.
Even then it was a long shot.
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Too many people in the department resented
me, many had reason to. The
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truth was I was half in,
half out. I had a second career
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of sorts. Lisa Flowers. She
leaned toward me across the desk. I
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noticed, there's always the reddish brown
shoulder length hair, the dark, intelligent
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eyes, and most and worst of
all, the glittering diamond and gold band
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on a left hand. My sister's
gone, Tony, how long? Long
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enough that I came to tell you? Where was she? Last? Browns
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Villain, Red Meat Village, Telly. She was an honor student. She
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was going to grad school. Here
sounds like she was smart enough to choose
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better friends. You're all heart I
see why your students love you. Hey,
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I'm a philosophy professor and a writer
trying to complete a manuscript, that's
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all. You're a do good,
part time private investigator, solving cases that
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no one else can. May I
She knew she didn't need to ask,
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and sat down before I answered Anthony. Internally, I groaned, she never
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used my proper name. I knew
the request that was coming, Missus Flowers.
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This wasn't her married name. I
neglected the doctor title of this part
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time psychology professor and full time psychotherapist. I knew both what she wanted and
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that I couldn't refuse her. She
smiled. She knew it too. Find
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her Tony please. She's my kid's
sister. She's in trouble, so if
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I help your divorce and Nicholas Bueno
Nikki Good on the street was her Argentine
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husband, ne'er do well, never
known to hold a job, leaching off
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his wife hooked on bodybuilding, steroids
and coke. Her dark eyes heated,
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as they always did when I disparaged
her. Man if he heard that,
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he'd bend you in half for the
fun of it. Even when annoyed like
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now, her diction, her accent, and her alluring eyes always retained the
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upscale demeanor of her Upper West Side
upbringing. I stared at her. I
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knew she'd run with Hell's kitchen tufts
when she was a rebellious teenager, but
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I never saw a sign of it. Yeah, Reggie might not approve of
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my new shape. Why'd you marry
him? Anyway? Smart women, foolish
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choices? Why do you stay married
to him? She got up and walked
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to the door. She turned,
and now her eyes were serious. Please
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find her. Her final words were
a plea, the void of any banter
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her eyes for an instant, the
burrier lord, something warm, radiated something
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from an internal locust, and suffused
empathy like sunlight. Then the wall erected
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again, but not before I swallowed
deep in my throat. She was halfway
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out when I called to her.
At least she turned around. Photo description,
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distinguishing marks. Anything I can use
to idea, I'll get it to
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you. I also got questions,
friends, contacts, habits, non associates
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and such. I've got answers,
but I'm in session in an hour.
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I gotta get home soon. Then
she was through the door, and nothing
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was left of her in the room
but her scent. It was enough.
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I went to Reggie's apartment. He
had a spare bedroom outfitted exclusively for his
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obsessive habit. It featured an oversized, dark brown leather easy chair with standing
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reading lamps on I decide. By
his right hand, there was a small
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brown table with a few highlighters and
red pens on the surface. There was
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no television, moved stereo, no
sofa. Reggie didn't drink alcohol, He
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didn't smoke. He scorned all forms
of drugs, even begrudging an occasional pair
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of aspirants he took to he's aching
muscles. He read a lot, constantly,
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lighting every wall of his hideaway wrap
around bookcases Florida Ceilo, overstuffed with
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books alphabetized by author, divided into
sections, overwhelmingly literature, also history in
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the small section of leading history of
philosophy, texts carefully mocked up, annotated,
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and discussed with me. His alcoholic
father called him a pussy bookworm at
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times when he beat him, Reggie
refused to hit back. His mother had
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been a nurse, support of a
Roman child, but descended into hard times
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than drug addiction and death. He
was alone. I turned to him.
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I suppose we're not calling the NYPD, notpe. They're hampered by the punctilios
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of the law. Punctilios it means
niceties or amenities of conduct. I am
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so gonna beat your ass in the
essay contest. The university had decided to
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hold an essay contest opened to students
and faculty and their sponsored guests. He
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was supposed to foster a sense of
community or some bullshit. Reggie and I
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just wanted a chance to beat each
other at something you can try, but
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we already know you're not smarter than
me. Yeah, why's that You've been
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dragooned against your will into detective work
by a fine psychologist you're painting for.
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Uh huh, Well, now I'm
dragooning you. So if you say yes,
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then which one of us is the
idiot? We can debate. In
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the car, Lisa had given me
her sister's name, Destiny. Yeah.
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I thought she was screwing with me
too, but now that really was her
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name. Reggie went with me to
meet Detective Damian Stacy. Stacy's full had
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a white hair, made him look
seventy years old. He was forty six.
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I showed him a picture of Destiny
that Lisa had given me. She
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was twenty one and had this tattoo
on the left side of her neck of
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twin dragons and circling each other.
Stacy sent me to hand. Cassidy patrol
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Copy worked in Brownsville for years and
and I were both vets mech two and
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a rack her usmc Persian Gulf one. She had nothing for me, but
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promised to look into it at the
university. I got Destiny's home address from
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my friend in the admissions office,
Kate Norris. I circled back up with
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Reggie. We met at a park
Betsy Head, near Lisa's sister's address.
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Reggie market his Gangland. I took
Molly my nine millimeter, which I kept
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in my shoulder harness Destiny. Await
Destiny's neighbors. At first, Destiny's neighbors.
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Destiny's neighbors sound like a hippie band. We skirted past the park and
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ambled a short distance to me Destiny's
address. The houses were dark and nobody
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was in the street. Thick gray
clouds had rolled in with a damn cold
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looked like snow. I glanced around
the stream. We'll wait people whom from
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work soon bomy day. We crossed
the street to watch from the other side.
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We paced the other side of the
stream. We watched ceaselessly. We
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talked about the essay contest. We
talked about the chances of Lisa getting divorced.
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We talked about my past engagement to
Jessica Miranda Reggie had never met,
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and about my reasons for breaking it
off. We talked about my next book.
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We talked about Reggie's rise to the
heavyweight title. A light snow started
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to fall. We walked some more. We kept talking. Jessica is a
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d E agent now right? Yeah? She is? Are you on speaking
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terms? Nope? You broke her
heart. I know. I still remember,
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all these years later, the stricken
look of her eyes when I ended
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it. We were silent for a
minute. Then Richie spoke with Comb in
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the drug infested sections of Red Meat
Village looking for Destiny Hunter. It would
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be additive to have a DA agent
for resource, without a doubt. Is
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this a tender topic for me?
A little for her? A lot?
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For how long ago? Six years
your last long term relationship? A car
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glided down the street, moving slow, looking for a spot. I watched
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it roll past us, then slide
around the corner. It skidded slightly on
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the slick pavement. Yeah. I
dated different women, but until Lisa,
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there's been nobody like Jessica. Is
Jessica married now? Nah? I would
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have heard six years before this dance
with Destiny is done, we might have
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to contact her could be He said, no more about it. We kept
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walking. We watched relentlessly. It
was almost six fifteen. A tall,
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stout woman started up the stairs to
Destiny's building. She wore a navy blue
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kerchief, nodded around a bun of
dark hair. She hefted an overstuffed shopping
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bag a woman's clothing store. We
darted across the street. Ma'am. She
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turned to face us. She was
light skinned by racial I guessed forty,
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wore round, oversized glasses, and
looked surprisingly unperturbed at the large man in
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his companion converging on her in the
dark street. Can I help you?
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Her voice was church goers, sweet, we have questions about Destiny Hunter.
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Oh. She fumbled around for the
keys in her bag. The police were
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already here, but come on in. She unlocked the outer door and then
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the inner one to her apartment.
She ushered us in, turned on several
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floor lamps. The apartment was comfortable, with large reddish brown area rugs covering
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well polished hardwood floors. There was
an overstuffed, well worn sofa in the
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living room center, a glass coffee
table with a vase of artificial geraniums,
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and an old school console TV across
from the sofa. There was a painting
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of Jesus on the wall above the
television. The color of the area rugs
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reminded me of Lisa's hair and shook
my head. Would you boys like some
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tea? Oh? No, thank
would be divine? Thank you. She
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served the tea and we sat around
the coffee table. Are your friends of
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destinies? I had my first chance
to take a good look at her.
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Her voice and her eyes were tender
with mercy. Jesus had taught her to
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love everybody, I guessed. She
wore a loose fitting blue ankle length dress
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and low black heels. I'm Tony, this is Reggie. Pleasure to meet
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you. I'm Manjuri smoke, I'm
a private eye. Man. Well,
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I'm afraid I haven't seen destiny in
some time. How much time must be
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a couple of weeks. I've been
in her apartment twice to clean it,
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like she asked a couple of years
ago, but there's no sign that she's
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been there. You got a key, Yes, we have a key to
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each other's place. It's good to
do with someone you trust in case of
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emergency. She saw the hopeful expression
of my face, but I swore to
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the police that I would not let
anybody in there. Yeah, look,
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mounserie, I I just spoke to
the cops. They're not concerned yet about
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Destiny's disappearance. We are times critical. Such a nice girl. You know,
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she's a psychology. We know,
but there's no telling who might have
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gotten their hands on it, especially
in this neighborhood. I know it's been
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going downhill in the last couple of
years, especially at night. I don't
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want to start any trouble with the
police. You aren't start any trouble with
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the cops, but you might save
Destiny Hunter from a mess of trouble.
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All right, I'm willing to trust
you boys. She took a key from
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a desk drawer in the next room. She lives upstairs. She flicked on
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a light and led us up the
stairs. At the landing stood one door,
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brown, unmarked, nondescript. Monserie
undid the lock and we followed her
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in. She turned on an overhead
light. Do you want me to leave
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you to your sleuthing? I can
go back downstairs rather than get in your
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way. No, no, no, please stay, Monserie. We may
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have questions. It was one large
room like a dorm room of a college
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kid, with a small bathroom off
to one side. Textbooks were piled on
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a card table adjacent to a double
bed. A reading lamp hung from the
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top of the bedboard. A computer
and various pins and pads occupied a desk
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by the room soule window. There
was a small metallic filing cabinet across from
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the bed. On top was a
hard blue paper weight in the shape of
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a swallowtail humming bird the Jamaican National
Burden. On the wall above it hung
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a single photograph. It was of
a young pretty girl on the ground,
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smiling, her arms around the neck
of a golden retriever. If dogs could
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smile, the retriever was Reggie.
Immediately went to the filing cabinet, got
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on his knees and pulled open the
bottom drawer. I switched on Destiny's computer,
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hoping I could hack into a personal
email account. I couldn't. I
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opened the desk drawer and went through
its contents. Just a bunch of pins,
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a memo pad, a chief of
loose paper. Then I stopped.
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There was a faded photograph of a
young girl, maybe ten, standing ankle
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deep in water. So blue.
It resembled a painting more than photograph.
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In the distant background were hills and
a cliff with a lighthouse perched the top.
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I stared at it the Caribbean.
I bed. Several minutes went by,
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and then I noticed a stain on
the wall behind the desk and computer
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near the floor. Was it blood? I stooped to examine it. Reggie
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banged through the file cabinet's metallic drawers. We were so absorbed we didn't hear
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the door quietly latch shut and lock. She was such a nice girl.
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The sweetness of Monsourie's voice matched the
scene. I think you need to look
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at this, Reggie and I turned
around. She reached into the folds of
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a blue dress and withdrew a pair
of slim line automatic pistols. They looked
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black as a striking cobra and just
as friendly. She pointed one at Reggie's
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chest, the other of mine.
Do you think you're going to find destiny?
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Hunter? Aiming guns in my direction
is a quick way to shore your
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life expectancy. Man, Your life
expectancy is about thirty seconds the both of
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you. Her head jerked slightly at
me, this time her voice didn't sound
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quite as sweet, monsieur, Please, we're just trying to find Destiny.
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Maybe there are people who don't want
her found, maybe Destiny herself. She
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helped the gun steady, not waving
them around like an amateur. Reggie was
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crouched and still a tiger poised to
strike. I sat motionless, right hand
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shielded from view, getting a grip
on the chair. Her view was split
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in two directions. She blamed.
I overturned Destiny's chair, flinging it aside,
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and lunched sidewas Reggie, whose hands
emotion could not be seen, left
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handed, grabbed a heavy hummingbird paperway
and flung it in Manchet's face. He
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plunged to the deck. Instinctively,
she threw up her right hand hand to
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block the projectile. She missed and
dropped. The gun of metallic object struck
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her flush on the two, stunning
and driving her back against the lockdoor.
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I dived behind the foot of Destiny's
bed, and Mama was in my right
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hand. I coined the nine of
a chest. She pushed off the door
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and shook her head, trying to
clear the vision. Two handed, she
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lined up her gun sights on me, dropped the gun Redmead Village as a
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Voyage, meet village age. You
hear three lunatics robbed the cartel dropping Brooklyn
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last name. I guess I'm not
as blug dead as you are two point
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four million worth of cope. But
someone's stopping and weigh it. Just what
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I heard? What name you're gonna
use in the contest? Humphrey van Waiting?
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Oh why not? Hu? But
see horn swimming two cumbers? Yeah,
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that Humphrey van Waiting just rolls off
the tongue. You and Gale are
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the only ones who know why I
chose that name. You're going down,
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Reggie Worston. You did when you
fought Big Sleep. How long are you
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gonna keep bringing that up? I
wonder the fight didn't not as please you
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sat on that man like he just
slapped your mom. Lose a fight,
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then I'll have something else to bet
on it. See what odds you co
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yet? Yeah right, I don't
have your kind of money, speaking of,
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I'm late to make a couple hundred
bucks to illuminate the minds of our
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youth. Let me know how that
tenure works out. Hey, mine was
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a backhanded compliment. I sighed and
looked up from the manuscript I was working
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on. In a few months,
I'd probably be denied tenure. My first
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book had been well received. My
only shot to retaine employment was to finish
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the second one quickly and effectively.
Even then it was a long shot.
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Too many people in the department resented
me, many had reason to. The
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truth was I was half in,
half out. I had a second career
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of sorts. Lisa Flowers. She
leaned toward me across the desk. I
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noticed, there's always the reddish brown
shoulder length hair, the dark, intelligent
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eyes, and most and worst of
all, the glittering diamond and gold band
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on a left hand. My sister's
gone, Tony, how long? Long
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enough that I came to tell you? Where was she? Last? Browns
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Villain, Red Meat Village, Telly. She was an honor student. She
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was going to grad school. Here
sounds like she was smart enough to choose
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better friends. You're all heart I
see why your students love you. Hey,
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I'm a philosophy professor and a writer
trying to complete a manuscript, that's
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all. You're a do good,
part time private investigator, solving cases that
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no one else can. May I
She knew she didn't need to ask,
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and sat down before I answered Anthony. Internally, I groaned, she never
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used my proper name. I knew
the request that was coming, Missus Flowers.
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This wasn't her married name. I
neglected the doctor title of this part
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time psychology professor and full time psychotherapist. I knew both what she wanted and
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that I couldn't refuse her. She
smiled. She knew it too. Find
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her Tony please. She's my kid's
sister. She's in trouble, so if
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I help your divorce and Nicholas Bueno
Nikki Good on the street was her Argentine
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husband, ne'er do well, never
known to hold a job, leaching off
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his wife hooked on bodybuilding, steroids
and coke. Her dark eyes heated,
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as they always did when I disparaged
her. Man if he heard that,
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he'd bend you in half for the
fun of it. Even when annoyed like
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now, her diction, her accent, and her alluring eyes always retained the
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upscale demeanor of her Upper West Side
upbringing. I stared at her. I
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knew she'd run with Hell's kitchen tufts
when she was a rebellious teenager, but
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I never saw a sign of it. Yeah, Reggie might not approve of
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my new shape. Why'd you marry
him? Anyway? Smart women, foolish
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choices? Why do you stay married
to him? She got up and walked
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to the door. She turned,
and now her eyes were serious. Please
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find her. Her final words were
a plea, the void of any banter
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her eyes for an instant, the
burrier lord, something warm, radiated something
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from an internal locust, and suffused
empathy like sunlight. Then the wall erected
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again, but not before I swallowed
deep in my throat. She was halfway
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out when I called to her.
At least she turned around. Photo description,
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distinguishing marks. Anything I can use
to idea, I'll get it to
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you. I also got questions,
friends, contacts, habits, non associates
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and such. I've got answers,
but I'm in session in an hour.
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I gotta get home soon. Then
she was through the door, and nothing
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was left of her in the room
but her scent. It was enough.
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I went to Reggie's apartment. He
had a spare bedroom outfitted exclusively for his
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obsessive habit. It featured an oversized, dark brown leather easy chair with standing
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reading lamps on I decide. By
his right hand, there was a small
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brown table with a few highlighters and
red pens on the surface. There was
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no television, moved stereo, no
sofa. Reggie didn't drink alcohol, He
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didn't smoke. He scorned all forms
of drugs, even begrudging an occasional pair
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of aspirants he took to he's aching
muscles. He read a lot, constantly,
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lighting every wall of his hideaway wrap
around bookcases Florida Ceilo, overstuffed with
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books alphabetized by author, divided into
sections, overwhelmingly literature, also history in
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the small section of leading history of
philosophy, texts carefully mocked up, annotated,
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and discussed with me. His alcoholic
father called him a pussy bookworm at
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times when he beat him, Reggie
refused to hit back. His mother had
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been a nurse, support of a
Roman child, but descended into hard times
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than drug addiction and death. He
was alone. I turned to him.
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I suppose we're not calling the NYPD, notpe. They're hampered by the punctilios
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of the law. Punctilios it means
niceties or amenities of conduct. I am
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so gonna beat your ass in the
essay contest. The university had decided to
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hold an essay contest opened to students
and faculty and their sponsored guests. He
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was supposed to foster a sense of
community or some bullshit. Reggie and I
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just wanted a chance to beat each
other at something you can try, but
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we already know you're not smarter than
me. Yeah, why's that You've been
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dragooned against your will into detective work
by a fine psychologist you're painting for.
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Uh huh, Well, now I'm
dragooning you. So if you say yes,
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then which one of us is the
idiot? We can debate. In
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the car, Lisa had given me
her sister's name, Destiny. Yeah.
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I thought she was screwing with me
too, but now that really was her
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name. Reggie went with me to
meet Detective Damian Stacy. Stacy's full had
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a white hair, made him look
seventy years old. He was forty six.
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I showed him a picture of Destiny
that Lisa had given me. She
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was twenty one and had this tattoo
on the left side of her neck of
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twin dragons and circling each other.
Stacy sent me to hand. Cassidy patrol
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Copy worked in Brownsville for years and
and I were both vets mech two and
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a rack her usmc Persian Gulf one. She had nothing for me, but
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promised to look into it at the
university. I got Destiny's home address from
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my friend in the admissions office,
Kate Norris. I circled back up with
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Reggie. We met at a park
Betsy Head, near Lisa's sister's address.
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Reggie market his Gangland. I took
Molly my nine millimeter, which I kept
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in my shoulder harness Destiny. Await
Destiny's neighbors. At first, Destiny's neighbors.
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Destiny's neighbors sound like a hippie band. We skirted past the park and
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ambled a short distance to me Destiny's
address. The houses were dark and nobody
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was in the street. Thick gray
clouds had rolled in with a damn cold
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looked like snow. I glanced around
the stream. We'll wait people whom from
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work soon bomy day. We crossed
the street to watch from the other side.
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We paced the other side of the
stream. We watched ceaselessly. We
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talked about the essay contest. We
talked about the chances of Lisa getting divorced.
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We talked about my past engagement to
Jessica Miranda Reggie had never met,
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and about my reasons for breaking it
off. We talked about my next book.
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We talked about Reggie's rise to the
heavyweight title. A light snow started
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to fall. We walked some more. We kept talking. Jessica is a
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d E agent now right? Yeah? She is? Are you on speaking
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terms? Nope? You broke her
heart. I know. I still remember,
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all these years later, the stricken
look of her eyes when I ended
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it. We were silent for a
minute. Then Richie spoke with Comb in
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the drug infested sections of Red Meat
Village looking for Destiny Hunter. It would
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be additive to have a DA agent
for resource, without a doubt. Is
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this a tender topic for me?
A little for her? A lot?
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For how long ago? Six years
your last long term relationship? A car
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glided down the street, moving slow, looking for a spot. I watched
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it roll past us, then slide
around the corner. It skidded slightly on
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the slick pavement. Yeah. I
dated different women, but until Lisa,
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there's been nobody like Jessica. Is
Jessica married now? Nah? I would
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have heard six years before this dance
with Destiny is done, we might have
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to contact her could be He said, no more about it. We kept
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walking. We watched relentlessly. It
was almost six fifteen. A tall,
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stout woman started up the stairs to
Destiny's building. She wore a navy blue
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kerchief, nodded around a bun of
dark hair. She hefted an overstuffed shopping
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bag a woman's clothing store. We
darted across the street. Ma'am. She
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turned to face us. She was
light skinned by racial I guessed forty,
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wore round, oversized glasses, and
looked surprisingly unperturbed at the large man in
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his companion converging on her in the
dark street. Can I help you?
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Her voice was church goers, sweet, we have questions about Destiny Hunter.
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Oh. She fumbled around for the
keys in her bag. The police were
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already here, but come on in. She unlocked the outer door and then
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the inner one to her apartment.
She ushered us in, turned on several
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floor lamps. The apartment was comfortable, with large reddish brown area rugs covering
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well polished hardwood floors. There was
an overstuffed, well worn sofa in the
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living room center, a glass coffee
table with a vase of artificial geraniums,
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and an old school console TV across
from the sofa. There was a painting
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of Jesus on the wall above the
television. The color of the area rugs
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reminded me of Lisa's hair and shook
my head. Would you boys like some
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tea? Oh? No, thank
would be divine? Thank you. She
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served the tea and we sat around
the coffee table. Are your friends of
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destinies? I had my first chance
to take a good look at her.
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Her voice and her eyes were tender
with mercy. Jesus had taught her to
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love everybody, I guessed. She
wore a loose fitting blue ankle length dress
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and low black heels. I'm Tony, this is Reggie. Pleasure to meet
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you. I'm Manjuri smoke, I'm
a private eye. Man. Well,
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I'm afraid I haven't seen destiny in
some time. How much time must be
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a couple of weeks. I've been
in her apartment twice to clean it,
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like she asked a couple of years
ago, but there's no sign that she's
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been there. You got a key, Yes, we have a key to
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each other's place. It's good to
do with someone you trust in case of
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emergency. She saw the hopeful expression
of my face, but I swore to
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the police that I would not let
anybody in there. Yeah, look,
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mounserie, I I just spoke to
the cops. They're not concerned yet about
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Destiny's disappearance. We are times critical. Such a nice girl. You know,
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she's a psychology. We know,
but there's no telling who might have
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gotten their hands on it, especially
in this neighborhood. I know it's been
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going downhill in the last couple of
years, especially at night. I don't
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want to start any trouble with the
police. You aren't start any trouble with
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the cops, but you might save
Destiny Hunter from a mess of trouble.
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All right, I'm willing to trust
you boys. She took a key from
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a desk drawer in the next room. She lives upstairs. She flicked on
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a light and led us up the
stairs. At the landing stood one door,
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brown, unmarked, nondescript. Monserie
undid the lock and we followed her
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in. She turned on an overhead
light. Do you want me to leave
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you to your sleuthing? I can
go back downstairs rather than get in your
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way. No, no, no, please stay, Monserie. We may
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have questions. It was one large
room like a dorm room of a college
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kid, with a small bathroom off
to one side. Textbooks were piled on
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a card table adjacent to a double
bed. A reading lamp hung from the
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top of the bedboard. A computer
and various pins and pads occupied a desk
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by the room soule window. There
was a small metallic filing cabinet across from
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the bed. On top was a
hard blue paper weight in the shape of
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a swallowtail humming bird the Jamaican National
Burden. On the wall above it hung
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a single photograph. It was of
a young pretty girl on the ground,
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smiling, her arms around the neck
of a golden retriever. If dogs could
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smile, the retriever was Reggie.
Immediately went to the filing cabinet, got
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on his knees and pulled open the
bottom drawer. I switched on Destiny's computer,
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hoping I could hack into a personal
email account. I couldn't. I
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opened the desk drawer and went through
its contents. Just a bunch of pins,
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a memo pad, a chief of
loose paper. Then I stopped.
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There was a faded photograph of a
young girl, maybe ten, standing ankle
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deep in water. So blue.
It resembled a painting more than photograph.
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In the distant background were hills and
a cliff with a lighthouse perched the top.
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I stared at it the Caribbean.
I bed. Several minutes went by,
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and then I noticed a stain on
the wall behind the desk and computer
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near the floor. Was it blood? I stooped to examine it. Reggie
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banged through the file cabinet's metallic drawers. We were so absorbed we didn't hear
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the door quietly latch shut and lock. She was such a nice girl.
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The sweetness of Monsourie's voice matched the
scene. I think you need to look
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at this, Reggie and I turned
around. She reached into the folds of
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a blue dress and withdrew a pair
of slim line automatic pistols. They looked
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black as a striking cobra and just
as friendly. She pointed one at Reggie's
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chest, the other of mine.
Do you think you're going to find destiny?
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Hunter? Aiming guns in my direction
is a quick way to shore your
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life expectancy. Man, Your life
expectancy is about thirty seconds the both of
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you. Her head jerked slightly at
me, this time her voice didn't sound
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quite as sweet, monsieur, Please, we're just trying to find Destiny.
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Maybe there are people who don't want
her found, maybe Destiny herself. She
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helped the gun steady, not waving
them around like an amateur. Reggie was
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crouched and still a tiger poised to
strike. I sat motionless, right hand
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shielded from view, getting a grip
on the chair. Her view was split
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in two directions. She blamed.
I overturned Destiny's chair, flinging it aside,
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and lunched sidewas Reggie, whose hands
emotion could not be seen, left
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handed, grabbed a heavy hummingbird paperway
and flung it in Manchet's face. He
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plunged to the deck. Instinctively,
she threw up her right hand hand to
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block the projectile. She missed and
dropped. The gun of metallic object struck
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her flush on the two, stunning
and driving her back against the lockdoor.
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I dived behind the foot of Destiny's
bed, and Mama was in my right
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hand. I coined the nine of
a chest. She pushed off the door
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and shook her head, trying to
clear the vision. Two handed, she
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lined up her gun sights on me, dropped the gun Redmead Village as a
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production of Voyage Media. The series
is produced by nat Mondel, Robert Midas,
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and Dan Benimore, directed, produced, and adapted by Dan Bennimore,
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based on Andrew Bernstein's upcoming novel of
the same name. When a link to
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the novel is available, it will
be listed in the show notes. Starring
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Catherine Bell as Lisa, Malik Yoba
as Reggie, and Ryan Heavy as Tony.
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