Page 16 (1/2)

Ty looked up fro and stared at her, not responding otherwise

Zane looked between theood idea after all "Serena, behave," he said lowly She turned light, calculating eyes on hi A day ago he would have al at it like he knew they were about to do

She waited another long moment and then smiled "Since you asked nicely," she said finally

"Give us a basic profile on the serial, please," Zane requested, noting that Ty was still holding his tongue

Ty glanced at Zane and narrowed his eyes He didn’t knohy they were here, and he didn’t think they needed to be dealing with this wo they didn’t already know, and she was a pain in the ass to be around Ty and Serena could go back and forth at each other all night, twisting knives in old wounds andnew ones until they were both curled up in their respective corners and crying They’d done it before

The part she enjoyedat her And the only way he could avoid doing that was to keep biting his tongue or drink Or both He preferred both

"I believe he’s sane and sending a anized killer, probably plans the murders far in advance Likely follows the victim for days, maybe weeks before he takes theot his next victim, or possibly next two, already picked out"

"Do you think he’s watching the investigations?" Ty asked in a low voice, curious to see if she agreed with them in that respect as well

"Closely," she answered with a s about the fact that he had asked her opinion

"And not just in theher knohat they had been thinking

"Agreed," she responded easily, still looking at Ty and see that Serena knew a lot about Ty and his past that Zane didn’t, and he wondered if he could learn anything about his new partner froet Serena alone later just to pump her for infor Ty’s file yet It just didn’t seeht

"It’s possible he has a peripheral role in the investigation that allows him access," she went on as Ty nodded silently "You think it’s someone internal," she said to hiht you two in?" she asked as she turned her calculating gaze back to Zane "To run around in the dark and cause internal trouble? Tyler here is very good at that sort of thing"

Zane cleared his throat and sat back as the waitress returned with Ty’s drink and took their orders Once that was taken care of, he blatantly ignored her last comment and continued on "It is possible that it’s soed a list of ite from the reports Different pieces, all small and somewhat inconsequential It "

Serena glanced between the twoon Ty suspiciously "What did you find out?" she asked Zane

"Nothing," Zane answered with a shrug "I’ll need to talk to the handling agents in each case, and frankly, the details are soworried over, other than the fact they’re "

The woman nodded "If you need assistance with the ME, let o way back"

Zane’s face transforht "I love it when you’re so helpful"

"You know you’ll pay for it later," Serena cooed as she glanced at Ty again, ale to him "So Ty,"

she said suddenly "I won’t say it’s nice to see you But at least you’ve got a good man to ith on this case"

"Yeah, he’s a real Boy Scout," Ty answered flatly as he h she sid "Don’t fuck him over like you did your last partner"

"Serena," Zane said sharply

She didn’t turn her chin to look at hi, Zane? Surely you don’t think I’ll hurt his feelings He doesn’t have any"

"I see you’re still spending ues than your cases," Ty responded calhest successful profiling record in the region, so it’s working out pretty well, thanks," the woman answered

"Easy to be a success when you hand off the hard ones," Ty drawled

"Can’t figure it out, so you hand it off on an overworked Feeb, let him take the fall if he fails"

She narrowed her eyes, but continued to s is all you can do for a case You didn’t fail, though, did you, Tyler? Made quite the case out of it"

"After four

"That’s enough, Serena," Zane broke in, voice low and serious "I called you for inforht with hts with your partner is so entertaining, Zane," Serena drawled "Surely you’ve found that out by now?"

"I wouldn’t know," Zane responded coldly

Serena sniffed and turned a disappointed moue on Zane "You’re no fun anymore, you know? I liked you a lot better when you still drank" She reached over and picked up Ty’s glass, taking a dainty sip and nodding in approval