Hammer & Gavel (The Omegaverse Case Files #1)

ELEVEN

LADY & THE TRAMP

By some miracle, Oliver avoided interviewing any more children the following day. Perhaps it was divine intervention, or just a dodgy lasagne, but the foster placement called at eight o’clock on the dot to inform him that both Hattie and Amil had stomach bugs. No horrible ex-boyfriend reunions today, thanks very much.

Although, he’d have almost taken the horrible ex-boyfriend if it meant getting out of his current predicament. Almost . Because as it turned out, ‘Aunty Joanne’ was not actually Alfie’s aunt at all. She was a well-known drug dealer with a hotline that ran out of a semi-detached bungalow in the middle of a retirement village. She introduced herself to the custody sergeant as ‘Mary Joanna Cocana,’ which Oliver thought was fucking hilarious, given that her main products were marijuana and coke.