While that was happening, Quinn was seated in his leather armchair with his feet propped up on a matching ottoman. He was smoking a Cuban cigar and feeling pretty good.
When Pearl finally got back to her apartment that evening, she downed half a bottle of Pellegrino, then removed her shoes and padded in her stocking feet to the phone.
She pecked out her mother's number at the assisted living home.
Blood calling to blood.
Lauri and Wormy resumed their relationship, with Quinn's grudging approval.
Wormy's sudden fame garnered The Defendants a record company contract, and their CD of Lost in Bonkers debuted on the charts as number 473 with a bullet. Wormy remained afraid of Quinn. Quinn never told him he sometimes found himself humming Lost in Bonkers when he was in the shower.
Maybe Lauri really would someday be a cop, Quinn thought, while he waited patiently for another phone call from Renz.
He was sure there would be one.
