Chapter 73: It’s all gone south

“What do you mean they granted me bail?” Billy rose from his bed and went to the window. He hates looking his mother in the face when confronting her because saying harsh words to her makes him feel he is pulling hard on his own skin, like the monks who believe in the revelation of Purgatory. “I didn’t apply for bail or demand the jury be settled for any reason, and so what?” he hollered at the window, his back against his mother, who was sitting undisturbed at the edge of the bed. She was donning fine silk that gave her the look of a Chinese noblewoman, but the jewels around her neck were nothing like those of the Chinese noblewomen, whose jewels had a far different pattern. “I know you don’t wish to return to your land of birth because you want all the time in the world to do your little promiscuous biddings.” She touched the edge of her dress. “But I was informed by my intelligence department that we had a leak. So many persons are working hard to uncover the little mystery we p