I Funded Their Empire for Years, So They Sent Me the Bill novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Questioned
I slid off the counter.
"Then I'll go now," I said. "Before she gets to decide what time I'm guilty."
Cian already had his phone out.
"I'll ring my solicitor. She's in the Four Courts by nine, but she'll come..."
"No."
He looked at me over the phone.
"Number four," I said. "If I walk in there with your solicitor, it's your story. I want it to be mine."
He held my eyes for a long second, then put the phone face down on the counter.
"Grand," he said quietly. "Wear your own shirt, at least."
Ottoline set the whippet down on his kitchen floor.
"I'll mind the Corkman," she said. "Go and be boring at them, dear. It's your great gift."
The interview room at Pearse Street had a table bolted to the floor and a window of frosted glass.
The detective sergeant was a tired man in his fifties with a biro behind his ear.
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