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Bax made a noise in his sleep andsounds to hier over that black star Like I said, that hat love in the Point looked like and I couldn’t be happier for either of them
I closed the door quietly behind me and pulled my phone out so I could text Reeve that I was headed back to the loft after all She didn’t text me back, so I assuht I was pulling out of the hospital parking lot whenme back to let aot home My blood froze when the unnaturally calm voice of one of my fellow detectives came across the line
“Detective King, we just got called out to those high-rise condos on the docks Shots fired and one reported fatality One of the witnesses on the scene de there”
I had to concentrate on breathing after s seized and my heart dropped into my shoes “The fatality, is it a male or a female?”
I heard the typical background noise that went along with a crih the floorboard of the GTO as I raced across town
“Male suffering unshot wounds to the head and chest Looks like a break-in and attempted sexual assault The victim said she shot him in self-defense She told the feirlfriend and asked us to call you right away” The other cop coughed “Pretty girl Looks like she took a nasty beating before she pulled the trigger She won’t go with the paraet here”
A nasty beating? What exactly did thatwith every worst-case scenario I could think of I couldn’t believe Reeve had shot soun froh-tech and extreme security measures Race had in place at the condo? None of it ht at the moment was that Reeve was okay and that whoever had tried to hurt her was the one not breathing anymore
When I pulled up in front of the condo, it looked like a scene out of a bad TV cop show Flashing sirens, worn-down docks, bored bystanders waiting to see the bodies rolled out to the coroner’s van, patrol cops and tired-eyed detectives keeping the scene secure, and sure enough, a lovely victi in the back of an ambulance while a parah-looking blanket Her dark hair was snarled and sticking up all over her head like so She was talking to another cop and the spinning red and blue lights cast harsh shadows on her pale face She looked calm She looked coht sight of e the other detective had described
She had white Steri-Strips over one of her dark eyebrows She already had a black eye starting to form around one of those dark blue orbs Her chin was split open and sporting spidery black stiches, and as she got up and started to move toward me I could see the scratches and bruises that decorated her soft skin An angry and bright red slash decorated her throat, and it made me clenchheld up by one strap as the other one dangled torn and useless off her shoulder She also had on those too-short shorts she liked to sleep in and I could see that her knees were torn open and raw like she had been dragged across the floor
I let out a soft little “oomph” as she hitas soon as my arms closed around her She cried and cried Her body shook so hard I thought she was going to fall apart I strokedwords to her as the other detectiveHe looked at me and then at Reeve and lifted his eyebrow
“I still have a few more questions to ask”
I narrowed ainston the opposite end of this conversation and I couldn’t say I cared for it at all