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Wrong Number: Part 2

‘Sure, I can do that for you,’ Detective Stewart said. ‘Shall I meet you somewhere?’

‘In the park by the children’s playground.

On the way to the meeting Detective Stewart was thinking, ‘There’s no way this is going to happen.’ Was this woman serious? Perhaps it was his friends in the police playing a joke on him.

But when he got to the park, Tammy was waiting.

Where's Bubbles?

‘Have you got the stuff?’ Tammy asked.

Detective Stewart nodded. ‘$40,’

He took the money from Banks and gave her a bag of methamphetamine. Or so she thought.

Tammy smiled and relaxed. ‘So where is Bubbles this morning?’ she asked. ‘He’s not in bed is he?’

Detective Stewart began to laugh. ‘No, he’s at an
interview.’

Not so sweet

For the first time Tammy realised something wasn’t right. ‘An interview? With who?’

‘The police,’ said Detective Stewart.

Tammy opened her bag. She now saw that it did not contain her favourite drug. Instead there were white peppermint sweets.

‘I wish they were all that easy,’ said Detective Stewart after he arrested the 41 year-old from Sedalia, Missouri.





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