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“You left her for dead, and now you would toss her in prison if she’s not willing to risk her neck for you? Fuck that”
“She broke the law”
“I understand that, but she agreed to testify against Novak’s crew, and when she realized what Roark was up to, she brought that information and that evidence forward She should still be considered a protected witness”
“She is As long as she’s useful Make her useful, Detective Do what I’—flaunt her, and show her off Get Conner to show his hand You won’t be out there alone anyirl so if he makes a move you have backup Here’s my card I want to be apprised of any developer and hadn’t been riding a desk for longer than I care to admit, I would handle the fieldwork on this caseI know you will do what needs to be done to take care of business Like I said, ant the sa”
I growled at him as he turned to open my office door I wanted to launch myself over the desk and throttle hiet my oay”
“It’s not blackirl out there as bait You know Roark is going to charge at her like a hungry shark reacting to blood in the water I just gave you a friendly reminder of what exactly is at stake should eet done”
“Youree with most of the choices she had made that led her to where she was now, she was still a person She was still a young wos She was trying to help, and trying to do the right thing, and that needed to be acknowledged
The older cop gaveas we’re doing soe the world around us, hopefully for the better, but far too often the folks thatour world for the worse Good luck, Detective King You’re going to need it”
I watched hih the chaos of the precinct house and felt htly at my sides I didn’t need luck I needed a shot One shot and I was going to bring Conner in and shut hi to really resent that the only way to do that was by asking Reeve to offer up her elegant and lovely neck on the chopping block It didn’t seeht thing, that she was atoning for past sins If Roark ended up better at this ga with her life seemed like an awfully steep price when all she had done was take an abuser and killer off the streets Using one bad man to rid the world of another bad ivable criled with the way she had used Dovie and how her actions had led to as really one of the worst nights of my life But everyone used everyone else in the Point so the penance waiting for her shouldn’t be any harsher than aiting for any of the rest of us
I took the piece of scrap paper with the naent had left with ht I found so and two calls to the wrong number before I connected with a man named Alby Jones He sounded like he smoked twenty packs a day and seemed totally disinterested when I explained that I was a detective looking for infor up on me until I mentioned that I knew he had been in the service; it was the key to opening up the communication door
He went on and on about his various tours of duty Regaled me with his heroics and tales of war I listened patiently because as long as he kept talking I could guide hio