Chapter 58: The Waiting Game

“Yo, Greg,” I said when he answered. “I got one more for you.”

He was silent.

“Greg, you still there?”

In a quiet voice, he said, “That detective was back.”

“Tolliver?”

“Yes, Detective Tolliver, you idiot,” he shouted. “I can’t do this, I’m gonna get busted.”

We went through the same song and dance, but it was early, and he had a lot of coffee drinking to do before he got his day started, so it didn’t last long. I could tell that the fact that he hadn’t been busted by Tolliver yet had eased his min...