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yourself.”
    “But there wasn’t any pressure on me,” he replied. “As far as I know, they are conducting a local investigation and not looking beyond Salt Lake for answers.”
    “So, you do know about the investigation.” If he didn’t know anything about what was going on then why did he know that they were keeping the investigation local?
    “Just what little bit I’ve picked up on the news,” he responded.
    The problem with accusing TNT of being a snitch was the fact that I really didn’t have any solid evidence. The son of a bitch was so cool that he could probably look you straight in the eyes, lie and never even flinch. I didn’t have anything to go on really, just Dish’s rumor, and it was a rumor that couldn’t be tracked. TNT seemed genuinely confused by my accusation and I was beginning to wonder if I had jumped the gun, but I damned sure wasn’t going to apologize for it.
    “I’m keeping an eye on you,” I hissed through clenched teeth. “If you’re setting me up, it’ll be the last thing you ever do.”
    “Look, you arrogant son of a bitch…” It was the first time I’d ever heard TNT lose his cool. “If I have a problem with you, I’ll come straight to the source and take care of it myself.”
    “You’d be lucky to…” I was talking into a dead line. The bastard had hung up before I could respond. Fuming at having been threatened and then hung up on, it was all that I could do not to call him back and lay into him all over again.
    “Thinks he can take care of me, does he?” I growled to the empty room.
    I got up from my chair and stomped down the hall to the bar. “Zane, I need a fuckin’ bottle and I need it now!”
    There was nobody else in the bar, so I went ahead and kicked a chair out from under one of the tables and sank into it. I was still pissed, but I couldn’t stay that way. I had to get control of myself, figure out how to substantiate the rumor and figure out if and how TNT had implicated me. After a couple of shots, I was starting to get myself under control. After three more, I began to realize that I had shown my hand too quickly. I was so fucked up in my head after spending the night with Dish and feeling guilty that I hadn’t been thinking clearly.

Chapter Fifteen: Peach
     
     
    I tried not to smile when I saw how screwed up Bulldog was when I got back from Reno. Part of the reason that I’d used Dish to get under his skin was because I knew that a guy, even a guy like Bulldog, couldn’t help but feel guilty after screwing his girlfriend’s best friend. Even if his guilt and remorse wouldn’t last long, I was sure that along with a rumor that he was being set up, he would overreact. There was no way of knowing for sure, so I had set up another plan to push Bulldog’s buttons a little bit more.
    Officer Sal O’Neal had been receiving kickbacks from Bulldog and his predecessor to look the other way for more than a decade. I’d gone with Bulldog for a meet with the dirty cop, seen money and information change hands and also noticed the way that Officer Sal leered at me. I was pretty sure that with the right amount of persuasion, I could get Sal to do a couple of favors for me too.
    When I’d left Reno, I’d dressed in my tightest-fitting jeans and hot pink chaps, which matched my brain bucket, for the ride back home. Though the tight jeans were uncomfortable on the ride, they and the leather jacket with nothing on underneath were part of my next move. I left the Hot Hound, stuffing the cash that I’d received from Bulldog in the pocket on the inside of my jacket, exited the parking lot and started in the opposite direction from home. I knew exactly where to find Sal O’Neal at that time of day.
    He was right where I knew he’d be, watching cheerleading practice at the junior college. The horny bastard loved to keep an eye on the girls. My guess was that the little sluts enjoyed putting on a show for the pervert too. As I turned the corner and saw