Chapter 35

Once or twice, Smith had been there when she paid one of her visits to Teddy to discuss something that always ended up pissing Teddy off and keeping him in a sour mood for days. He could remember the first time they were formally introduced and Teddy and given him a look to please not try to flirt. While, to be honest, he would have but then without Teddy's express warning, he got the stare from her and backed down. Smith liked to think he wanted women as much as they wanted him. He had the looks things going quite well and it didn't hurt that his mama raised him to become charming too. Smith knew what to say and when to say it, ladies liked a man with the good old confidence card and he liked to think he had a lot of that. With an half empty cup of black coffee and a newspaper in his hand, he swatted at a ladybird on his pants and opened the newspaper for the second time. The first three pages had discouraged him. First was a high school arson, one person brutally injured, on the s