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“Then, it’s nice to meet you. Now, tell me what I owe the pleasure?”
“I need your help,” Kirk said, and Rain and Carter sat back in their chairs.
“What can I do for you, Kirk?” Rain asked, surprised as Kirk told them the situation. It raised an eyebrow that the latest victim had been found murdered, because she went to school with Barbara.
“I had heard she was missing, but I hadn’t heard about that,” Rain said and looked at Carter. “Have you?”
“I haven’t either,” Carter said, and then he and Rain listened as Kirk explained that they believed that there was a serial killer in the neighborhood, and he was targeting young black girls.
“Why do you come to me?” Rain asked as Carla came in J.R.’s. Demi met her and immediately escorted her to the upstairs lounge to wait for Rain and Carter.
“Because, I gotta catch this guy. Somebody knows who this guy is,” he said as he watched Demi and Carla. “You’ll hear things long before I will. All I’m asking is that you tell me, so I can get this guy off the streets and locked down.”
Rain turned to Carter and then back at Kirk. “I like you, Kirk, so I’ll make sure that everyone knows that I want this guy found and because I like that you got a new partner, I’ll even pay for information, which I will gladly pass on to you.”
Kirk looked at Dawkins and they stood up. “That’s all I can ask for,” he said, and the detectives left the club.
Rain and Carter waited until they had left the club before they went to hear what Carla had to tell them about David ‘DP’ Petty.
“What you got for me, Carla?” Rain demanded to know the second she came through the door with Carter.
“David Petty, born David Hughes Wayne, mother, Carolyn Wayne, father Milton Petty,” Carla began, and Rain and Carter looked at one another because they had heard all they needed to hear. “His mother died of cancer when he was sixteen, and that’s when he went to live with his father and his father changed his name to Petty.”
Carla went on to tell them that he was enrolled at the best private schools and graduated from Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business with a Bachelor of Finance degree.
“Now he is the manager of a Towne Services Credit Union branch. I believe he’s laundering money through there but give me a day or two and I’ll know everything about him,” Carla said. “But, I thought that you’d want to know right away that David Petty is definitely Milton Petty’s son.”
“Thank you, Carla. You stay on that for me. And nobody outside this room needs to know what you’re doing,” Rain told her again.
Carter stood up. “Give me the address of the bank.”
“I just sent the address to your phones,” Carla said.
“You got anything for me?”
Carla smiled. “I sent that to your phone too,” she said and glanced at Rain. She nodded her head and then she got up and left the office with Carter.
When Rain and Carter arrived at the Towne Services Credit Union, they went inside and looked around to see if they saw DP anywhere. “You see him?” Rain asked.
“No,” Carter replied as they continued to look around.
The uniformed security guard watched uneasily as the well-dressed black man and the woman in black leather appeared to be casing the bank. So, he was somewhat surprised when Carter walked up to him and politely asked where he could find David Petty.
“Mr. Petty’s office is right around that corner on your left,” he said and pointed.
“Thank you,” Carter replied, and they headed toward the office. Once th
ey rounded the corner, Rain saw DP sitting in his office and she walked faster. Carter had to step quickly to keep up with her as they bypassed the receptionist and went straight in the office.
“You can’t go in there,” she shouted as they passed.
“Yes … we can,” Carter said, closed and locked the door behind him. DP smiled when he saw Rain come in his office. A smile that would soon disappear.
“Well, well, Lucy, it’s good to finally see you again,” DP said and stood up to greet her. Carter stepped up quickly and pushed him back in the chair.
“Shut the fuck up and listen,” Carter said and put a gun to his head.
“My name ain’t Lucy,” Rain said. “But I think you already know that.”