DROP FIFTY-FOUR
Hector slammed the doors open of the Laimargia restaurant. The head waiter came to him, and got a nice shove to the side. “Get out of my way, penguin.”
He sat across Hondros, who was there with Mamacita and another cyberpink girl.
He was eating baked potatoes. An entire crop’s worth of them, it seemed.
“You eat at the same place every day? No wonder it’s so easy to put a hit out on you!” Hector said, pushing a potato away from him. It had rolled at the empty side of the table.
“Hector, my friend!” The penguin waiter approached them, Hondros nodded and waved that everything was fine. “Dramatic entrance aside, what can I do for you? Hungry, perhaps?”
“Definitely not. What I want is to know if you had anything to do with Patty getting hurt yesterday.”
“Hector,” he compl
