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was going to cry.”
    Tilly laughed. “Well, first of all, he shouldn’t have been so drunk that he fell into our table. Second of all, landing in Quinn’s lap and spilling her drink all over her suede jacket didn’t help and third, maybe he shouldn’t have told her she had ‘beautiful tits,’ proceeding to pinch her nipple after.”
    They both laughed at that.
    “That was epic,” Jeff said with a snort.
    “I agree. ” She snorted too remembering the incident. “So what’s new with you?”
    “Nothing. Just thinking I’m gonna go the detective route.” He took a bite of lamb closing his eyes and moaning again.
    Please don’t say Vice. Please don’t say Vice. Please don’t say Vice.
    “Homicide, I think. Sounds like it’d be interesting, right?”
    Thank God. “Yes! Sounds like it’d be very interesting!” Tilly answered a little too excitedly making him look at her funny. She just wanted him off the street. Well, off patrolling the streets, which is where their father and uncle had been killed. She really hoped Jeff would follow through with his plan.
    “So I’m off tomorrow night at seven. Wanna do dinner?”
    “ Sure. But does ‘Wanna do dinner’ translate into, ‘You cook the turkey and everything else all by yourself and I’ll come over and eat it’?”
    “Pretty much,” he said with a smirk.
    “Butt-face-booby-headed freak,” Tilly replied, repeating the cut down that Jeff had called her when she’d caught him making trebuchets out of her bras.
    He’ d just taken a drink from his beer bottle and spewed some out, having to grab a napkin quickly to keep it from getting on his uniform. “Damn, Till. Warn a guy first,” he said laughing.
    She grinned. “ You deserved that since I’m gonna be cooking everything, ass.”
    “Thanks, jer k.”
    She rolled her eyes. Ah. The joys of sisterhood. As Jeff continued eating the leftovers, she did a mental inventory of all she’d need to pick up at the market that night to prepare for their feast, excited that she was going to have company after all.

Chapter 6
     
    Doug sat in the kitchen reading magazines as his mother prepared dinner. He’d moved in with her a couple weeks after she and his father had divorced two years before. She’d told Doug that she was lonely and needed male company, and, hey, if it meant free rent and free meals for him, what the heck.
    “You be hom e by one tomorrow for Thanksgiving dinner,” she reminded him.
    “I will. You need me to help with anything?” He knew she’d say no but they went through this routine every year.
    “Nope! Just bring your hungry self.”
    “ I sold the photos I took of the bank president this week,” he informed her as he flipped a page.
    “Yeah?” his mother asked from where she stood at the counter chopping garlic for her homemade spaghetti sauce.
    “Yep. The Times and the Post both bought proofs.”
    “That’s great, Doug. How much did they pay?”
    “Ma.”
    “Just wondering.” She shot him a pouty look.
    “I got paid pretty well. We’ll just leave it at that.” He wasn’t about to tell her anything. He’d learned his lesson over the years. Roberta Donati could’ve turned gossiping into an Olympic sport, and he just didn’t feel like giving her the gold today.
    “ Hm.” She cut her eyes at him then let out a loud sigh as she now cut up a bell pepper, like he’d ruined her day by not coughing up the info.
    Doug rolled his eyes.
    But then she bounced right back as she always did when it came to talking about people. “Oh! You know Mrs. Regazzo? Well, her granddaughter got pregnant by some boy who has piercings all over his body ! She said he has a hoop in his eyebrow, his lip and his nose. And he also has some kind of ball thing going right through his tongue! To top it all off?” She looked at her son all wide-eyed making sure she had his attention. “ Both his nipples are pierced! ” She whispered this bit of info, her eyes practically bugging out of her