Meet Cute
Chapter 12
"This is suppose to be a secure area." Raymond pointed out as he got into his car to leave work and found Kate in it.
"Well it isn't."
"You're like a bad penny. Or that evil doll in The Twilight Zone episode. The one they kept throwing out, but it kept showing back up."
"Annie is upset. You haven't been returning her calls."
"And I'm not going to."
"She wants to have a relationship with you."
"That's too damn bad because I don't want to have a relationship with her."
Kate asked him. "Have I somehow given you the impression that I care what you want?"
It was clearly a rhetorical question because she continued. "Here is how this is going to work. Once a week, you are going to have dinner with -"
Raymond interrupted her. "- I will never sit at a table and break bread with you."
"I'm not asking you to. We'll pick a night." She threw one out. "Thursday. Thursdays, you can come to the house and have dinner with Annie. I can disappear for -"
"- ever?" Raymond suggested.
"- for the evening."
"No." Raymond refused.
"In exchange, every week I will give you back one of the pins or medals I took off your uniform."
"I said no."
"If you don't, every week I will call the police anonymously to report where I have left one of them – starting with the one I told Jimmy to keep in his pocket."
Raymond stared at her agog. "You are trying to blackmail me into having a relationship with Annie?"
"Yes." She answered matter-of-factly.
"You can't do that! People don't do that! My God, what is wrong with you!?"
She ignored his protests. "Thursday. Six o'clock. If you like, bring your wife and daughter. They'll make a nice buffer."
"Jennifer has no connection to Annie. She's from Naomi's first marriage."
Kate seemed indifferent. "Annie won't care. Annie likes children."
"Any but her own apparently."
"Six o'clock. Thursday." Kate reminded him before getting out of the car.
After she left, Raymond just sat there stunned for several minutes.
Then, turning on the engine, Raymond left to do what he should have done days ago.
OOO
Raymond walked into the police station. He went straight to the Desk Sergeant. "Hello Sergeant ..." He read the name tag. " … Murphy. I would like to report a murder."
tbc
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