“The officers didn’t find anything in the house,” the detective on the phone told Dwayne.
He didn’t miss the irritation in her voice. It both irked and amused him. Dwayne knew that the detective wouldn’t be stupid enough to openly express her disgruntled emotions toward him. Not when she owed him more than a few hundred dollars in drugs and gambling debts, a bad habit she couldn’t seem to kick and was now a noose around her pretty neck. But it seemed she’d let it slip into her voice and not have the decency to apologize for it.
Lucky for her, dealing with the detective wasn’t on his agenda today. He had far more pressing matters to deal with. Dwayne ground his teeth together. “Did you even send the officers? Because my guy told me everything was in place.”
“Of course, I sent the offi
