“Don’t give yourself a hernia, Bosch. Just take the prints and leave. Never met anybody who tried so hard to make the person doin’ him a favor feel bad.” Bosch dumped his coffee cup in a trash can and started out. At the door he stopped. “Thanks.” It burned him to say it. The guy was an asshole. “Just remember, Bosch, you owe me.” Bosch looked back at him. He was stirring cream into his cup. Bosch walked back, sticking his hand in his pocket. When he got to the counter he pulled out a quarter and dropped it into the slotted tin box that was the coffee fund. “There, that’s for you,” Bosch said.
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