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I refrained fro his brother’s girlfriend kidnapped, and that said brother was an ex-con and unrepentant car thief I was trying to get the guy to hear me out, not piss him off even further

It was actually Noe who cao unanswered, she was the one who suggested we offer the cop so in the deal he wouldn’t be able to refuse We needed to appeal to his ingrained sense of right and wrong and his zealous need to keep his streets and department clean She was the one who mentioned that Booker said Titus went off the deep end when he told him about the dirty cop It was no secret the Point had their fair share of corruption in the police depart closely with Internal Affairs to shut down as much of it as he could You couldn’t keep the streets safe if you knew the good guys working theuys She cleverly pointed out that if ere going after Goddard’sto find the na the cops Titus King could do a lot of daet the wolves wearing sheep’s clothing away from the flock he was so desperate to protect

It was the obvious answer One that shouldn’t have takenwithto be an idiot for a long ti one was far less fun and itthatI had left was my ability to outthink everyone around me, everyone except for Noe Lee, apparently

Reluctantly, Titus agreed to get me into Goddard’s conity to the badge, and begrudgingly, he ad for Noe or Julia Grace So sucked, especially in a place that ate rules and regulations for breakfast He did warn that if Goddard caught on to as going down, he was going to disavoing anything about it There was only one cri to put his ass on the line for, and she was getting ready to have his baby

I told hiht was if Goddard noticed hi the flash drive into the co my phone down next to his In order toto make sure Goddard had to step out of the office while Titus was there for theirsoftware she had used to fool hi out We were all hoping the h sense of self-preservation to excuse hi eyes of the police If he didn’t, I was going old school: running into the fucking building and pulling the daet the job done in a pinch

I itchy and anxious leaning against the side of the cop’s cherry GTO It was one of the few things he had in co, badass dudes who liked old muscle cars that were loud and looked mean He’d parked it a few blocks away from City Hall and told me not to move ato see if Titus cah and made the connection While I paced ai me an ID that declared I was none other than Jonathan Goddard Once I had all his personal information, I was headed to the closest, no questions asked insurance office to take out a policy that would freeze every account he had when that death certificate was handed over That was one good thing about the Point There were plenty of places willing to turn a blind eye to obviously shady dealings for the right price

My coed with an alert and reen code The first thing I did, as I started frantically typing on the keyboard, was to turn on theGoddard said while he was near the computer was recorded and transmitted back to mine I turned on the webcam for the same reason and set up the shadow software so that every website he visited, every word he typed, was tracked and relayed to ht off the bat, so I started s out all his vital information: birth date, social security number, and mother’s maiden name from his personnel file I snorted at how easy it all was and sent the info in an eot back to the house

Since she didn’t knohere Julia was and didn’t want the teenager involved in any of this, Goddard’s irl so that she could access it whenever she was ready I told Noe that Nassir had a PI on his payroll who could track the girl down at a later date Chances were, she was still using the identity Noe created for her, and that was as good enough place as any to start

She replied with an e to believe I was in my mid-fifties I told her all that mattered was that our infor for the forged docu to look too closely at either after I slid them a fistful of cash to look the other way But before I did any of that, I was going to have to find where the man hid his dirtyin an account at any bank on the Hill Guys like Goddard could teach guys like Race and Nassir a trick or two about hiding ill-gotten gains Legislators were the best at keeping the bad things they did on the do

I was poking at the keys on the keyboard and frowning at some of the extra security measures Goddard had installed when a heavy hand landed on my shoulder andgreen and the cloning app I’d asked Titus to sync to the Mayor’s phone was already working He was texting someone about Titus and his unexpected visit The words were harsh and deet the decorated detective on a leash I sucked in a breath when Goddard typed that an accident ht be required if Titus didn’t back off

I held the phone out to the dark-hairedwas an inti man His eyes were too sharp and he carried himself like the immovable monolith he was The white streak in his hair htly older than he actually was Trying to protect this city and the people who called it ho hiovernment set er, but he had erous

"Can you tellthat text to?" He sounded pissed, and I couldn’t blaainst the corner of mywith a bad dude"

The big hed and ran a hand over his hair "He didn’t even blink when I asked about the dead cop or the torchedand dance about the cri a firm hand to deal with the offenders" He snorted and shifted so he was resting his hands on his hips as he watched host when his receptionist came in and told him he had a call from Julia How has no one in that house reported the fact she’s ? If they reported her as a runaway, law enforce her back if they ran across her Not to et"

I tapped the screen of the phone and scrolled through the replicated contact list until I found the nairl is pregnant He knocked her up and by now she’sThat’s hard to cover up if she doesn’t play along" I turned the phone to face Titus "You know so"

"Motherfucker!" The cop reached up and pulled off his tie, tossing it furiously into the openof the GTO His face flushed with angry heat and he started to pace in front of me with short, quick steps "Garett Bullock is the Assistant Coo between us and City Hall He’s on Goddard’s payroll?"

I shrugged "It looks like I’ll know , but I would watch ain and looked up at the gray sky "I givefor a criminal on a daily basis How auys I work for are actually worse because they hide what they are? At least with Nassir, you know exactly what you’re getting All I ever wanted was to do right by the people who deserve it"

I dippedto help but feeling like your hands were tied "You don’t work for the guys ere elected, King You work for the people who need you to protect and serve Yourunted and lowered his eyes to the ceh"