Finders Keepers Edie Baylis (phonics readers .TXT) 📖

hear every single word said. Sweat continued soaking the back of his shirt and he glared at his wife, wishing she’d just shut the fuck up.

Now he wouldn’t have to break the news to Tammy that he’d fucked up and lost them their home and business. Neither, with any luck, would she ever have to know that Heath was at present banged up on a murder charge.

She may well have to find out about that in the end, but at the moment there was hope.

If this brief O’Hara had arranged was as good as promised, then it stood a chance Heath would walk permanently. And that was something Mike wholeheartedly agreed with O’Hara on. It had to have been a set-up by the Powells. The brief had already showed how canny he was by knowing his stuff enough to fudge things for the CPS to grant a bail hearing.

Yes, he’d been able to prove that Heath was no danger to the public; their evidence was either fake and planted, or at worst, circumstantial. Neither was there any previous, so the hearing to release him on bail was all but a formality. The full trial would be another matter, but at least they were heading in the right direction.

O’Hara had also offered to stump up the cost of the bail, as well as paying off the debts the business had run up.

Mike inwardly shrugged, blindly trying to override the constant rolling of his guts.

What person in their right mind would turn that down? And all O’Hara wanted in return was a place to build a life here and find his niece, along with as much dirt on the Powells as possible.

Well of course, Mike hadn’t been able to refrain from telling the man that, as it happened, Heath knew all about his niece – that Lena Taylor from the Feathers he’d gushed over.

Whether there was any truth or not in O’Hara’s paranoia that something had befallen the girl, courtesy of the Powells was something else, but surely Heath telling them what he knew was a small price for his freedom?

And as for Tammy, well, she wouldn’t particularly be happy when he had to mention that the three strangers would be here for a lot longer that a couple of days. Aside from O’Hara, the young man was a bit of a weird and the girl wasn’t quite the ticket either. He didn’t have clue who they were, apart from related to O’Hara. That was obvious from the funny eyes the lot of them had. Far too close together.

But with any luck, they’d soon get fed up being crammed here with the lack of room and find their own place. As long as the cheque cleared they could do what they liked, but in the meantime, he’d just have to ensure Tammy remained patient.

Apart from that, there wasn’t a lot else he could do, apart from hope.

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