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Authors: Gene Grossman
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flaming red hair waving around, no more cleavage showing, but still looking good. Her hair is a conservative darker color, her blouse is buttoned up to a conservative point, and her walk is a little more conservative, on lower more conservative ‘sensible’ heels and with less motion of the posterior part of her body.
She walks right over to the table, picks up her glass, and with a clink onto mine, takes her first sip. Being a high-ranking Los Angeles County official, a car and driver have been assigned to her, so she doesn’t have to worry about drinking and driving any more.
After ordering, we spend a while catching up on mutual friends. Because we’re both involved in the law, we know the same people. She doesn’t ask about Suzi, who idolizes her, because I think they talk on the phone every day at least once or twice. As a result of Myra, Suzi plans on going to law school and becoming attorney general of the state. I’d like to think they also spend some time talking about me, but there’s no sense in getting my hopes up. We both know that Suzi’s grand scheme is to get us back together again, so that she can live with a mother and a father. In some ways I wish her luck, but I know in my heart that Myra’s had enough of me to last for a lifetime. It looks like the chances of Suzi succeeding are like the punch line of a pit boss in Vegas that I once represented: slim and none…. and Slim’s out of town.
We’ve run out of small talk and now Myra wants more details on the extortion case I mentioned this afternoon. I start right at the beginning and tell her everything I know about April’s case. To interest her a little more, I also include the details of Olive’s problems with Hershel the car dealer. Maybe she’ll take both of them on. Myra listens to it all, orders another drink, finishes up the one still on the table, and gives me her honest opinion.
“ Are you out of your frigging mind? What kind of pervert are you? I always knew you were a little kinky when we were married, but this is ridiculous. You’ve got one phone sex girl referring another phone-sex girl to you. There are two alleged extortion attempts, one for an apartment and another for some dirty talk. You amaze me. I never thought your practice would sink to such depths.”
“ Hey, wait a minute. What’s with that ‘kinky’ remark? I remember that when we were married you never complained when we played ‘the handyman and the housewife.’ And if my memory serves me correctly, you came up with a few new versions of that game yourself.”
Her face turns a deep red.
“ Okay, maybe I was a little harsh with you, but Peter, please, you can’t be serious about these cases can you? I know you can do better than turning these losers over to me. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this was all a ploy just to have dinner with me.”
“ That works for me. If you don’t want these cases, I’ll know that I at least tried. And because this satisfies parts of the kid’s plan to hook us up again, I also know that I’ll be reimbursed for this evening, so drink and enjoy.”
Our repartee is interrupted by the cell phone vibrating in my lap. I sneak a glance down at it and see that the text message display says: “Tony was fired.”
The rest of the evening’s conversation is taken up by our exchanging stories about Tony the cop. She’s heard more of them than me, but I actually witnessed two of them. We both decide that extortion cases or not, the evening didn’t turn out too bad. She buzzes her driver to bring the car around and I stumble back to our dock, to meet with the newly unemployed movie star.
As usual, Tony is sitting on the dock box next to my boat. I ask him only one question. “You didn’t kill him, did you?”
“ We disagreed about how a cop should testify. There was a bit of an argument, and he threw me off of the set.”
“ What’s the matter, didn’t he think you were authentic
She walks right over to the table, picks up her glass, and with a clink onto mine, takes her first sip. Being a high-ranking Los Angeles County official, a car and driver have been assigned to her, so she doesn’t have to worry about drinking and driving any more.
After ordering, we spend a while catching up on mutual friends. Because we’re both involved in the law, we know the same people. She doesn’t ask about Suzi, who idolizes her, because I think they talk on the phone every day at least once or twice. As a result of Myra, Suzi plans on going to law school and becoming attorney general of the state. I’d like to think they also spend some time talking about me, but there’s no sense in getting my hopes up. We both know that Suzi’s grand scheme is to get us back together again, so that she can live with a mother and a father. In some ways I wish her luck, but I know in my heart that Myra’s had enough of me to last for a lifetime. It looks like the chances of Suzi succeeding are like the punch line of a pit boss in Vegas that I once represented: slim and none…. and Slim’s out of town.
We’ve run out of small talk and now Myra wants more details on the extortion case I mentioned this afternoon. I start right at the beginning and tell her everything I know about April’s case. To interest her a little more, I also include the details of Olive’s problems with Hershel the car dealer. Maybe she’ll take both of them on. Myra listens to it all, orders another drink, finishes up the one still on the table, and gives me her honest opinion.
“ Are you out of your frigging mind? What kind of pervert are you? I always knew you were a little kinky when we were married, but this is ridiculous. You’ve got one phone sex girl referring another phone-sex girl to you. There are two alleged extortion attempts, one for an apartment and another for some dirty talk. You amaze me. I never thought your practice would sink to such depths.”
“ Hey, wait a minute. What’s with that ‘kinky’ remark? I remember that when we were married you never complained when we played ‘the handyman and the housewife.’ And if my memory serves me correctly, you came up with a few new versions of that game yourself.”
Her face turns a deep red.
“ Okay, maybe I was a little harsh with you, but Peter, please, you can’t be serious about these cases can you? I know you can do better than turning these losers over to me. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this was all a ploy just to have dinner with me.”
“ That works for me. If you don’t want these cases, I’ll know that I at least tried. And because this satisfies parts of the kid’s plan to hook us up again, I also know that I’ll be reimbursed for this evening, so drink and enjoy.”
Our repartee is interrupted by the cell phone vibrating in my lap. I sneak a glance down at it and see that the text message display says: “Tony was fired.”
The rest of the evening’s conversation is taken up by our exchanging stories about Tony the cop. She’s heard more of them than me, but I actually witnessed two of them. We both decide that extortion cases or not, the evening didn’t turn out too bad. She buzzes her driver to bring the car around and I stumble back to our dock, to meet with the newly unemployed movie star.
As usual, Tony is sitting on the dock box next to my boat. I ask him only one question. “You didn’t kill him, did you?”
“ We disagreed about how a cop should testify. There was a bit of an argument, and he threw me off of the set.”
“ What’s the matter, didn’t he think you were authentic
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