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The older cop nodded "This is Fiona Ratcliff, the hostage negotiator"

Fiona Ratcliff didn’t talk in pleasantries "You’re Mary’s current significant other"

The word current took hi you know about her home Does she have weapons? Where are the phones? What can you tell us about her relationship with Kent Duvall?"

Glen stood staring at the houn on Monday She et one, but I don’t know if she did" He pictured her ho roo her break-in and I don’t think she’s replaced it Another in her bedroom and a handset in her office" He leveled his eyes at Fiona "And the only relationship she has with Mr Duvall is in his head"

"Twoone squad car away called out

"You’re a guest, Mr Fairchild I don’t care what happens, you stay right there and wait like the rest of us Got that?"

"I got it, I got itI got it!" He was going to lose it hat he was going to do

Ms Ratcliff took a cell phone from her pocket and put it to her ear

Glen heard her side of the conversation

"How is everything in there?"

Glen placed his hands on the squad car to keep fro in

"I just want to talk to you, Kent"

Fiona listened for the next thirty seconds, then removed the phone fro?" Glen yelled his question

"The calls are aggravating him, and unless I can keep him on the line forto talk him out"

"We wait him out," Officer Taylor said

Fiona’s lips became a thin line with the scowl on her face "I don’t think so He’s taking his aggression out on the hostage"

The hostage "Mary, her fucking na about his lady as if she were an object

Fiona lifted a hand in the air "Mary," she said for his coet him to come out on his own," she said to Taylor

Taylor turned away and called the SWAT team in

"How did she sound?" Glen asked Fiona

"Tiredstressed What she didn’t sound was scared or hysterical Which is good If she can keep herself together, all the better"

"Mary’s a therapist She won’t fall apart easily"