He leaned back in his chair, steepling his hands in front of him and glaring at her over the tops of his fingers. She obliged his command and he thought she might sit there like a little church mouse while he said his piece, but he was wrong. She opened that red mouth of hers and started in about how the investigation had shifted to one of the locals.
Of course he was aware. He made his living with this fucking casino. The numbers had been reporting as higher than usual, even within the casino itself, not just the bars. "And how is your business doing, Izual? How many are too frightened of a triple homicide to go down there now?" Driving people away from the corrosive businesses wasn't really the objective here.
"Don't forget that I share a parking lot with you. What happens in your lot affects mine just as much." The difference was that he evidently had the security cameras her part of the parking lot lacked.
"Now, tell my why the fuck you thought that going without security cameras was a good idea."