Chapter 31: The Butcher's Invoice

The copy of the ledger lived in a plastic bag wrapped around a brick of old newspaper, which lived in a rusted locker in the back of Lui Mei-Ling's clinic, which was guarded by a cat who treated the locker like a personal throne. Scratcher sat on top of it, tail flicking, eyes half-lidded, looking exactly like a bouncer who had seen too many fights and lost interest in most of them.