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Kelsey slipped hers inside the folder

"I spoke with your captain about this case, Raintree," Jackson was saying "And he invited us in"

Kelsey watched as Logan Raintree nodded curtly and headed toward the door

He paused and turned to face theue?" he asked

"9:00 am"

"I’ll meet you there"

He left the rooain, please," Kelsey said

She found a chair at one of the e as Jake replayed it Oncewith the sense of fear and dread, she felt…

A sense of so About her Shea Marshal, but she knew she could help on this case And she wanted to

She held her folder with hands that see finished, bothher

"Nine?" she asked She’d heard Jackson the first ti

"Yes," Jackson said "I’ll pick you up at the Longhorn"

"One e co wo a tiara on sandy-colored hair

"That’s our irl," he said "Vanessa Johnston Last year’s Miss Maple Queen of Montpelier, Vermont"

Kelsey rose "I’ll have these read by tomorrow and be completely up to speed," she told Crow "I’m in, provided you still want this team to exist if Raintree opts out"

She was surprised when Crow sue tomorrow, and he won’t opt out"

Kelsey decided not to answer Raintree hadn’t looked as if he planned to agree Not in her opinion, anyway

But then,

"Good afternoon," she said And she left the twothe saan drove straight to his own office Others greeted hih the ers and civilians busy at other tasks The world hadn’t changed for any of them; they waved at him, smiled, chatted He went to Captain Aaron Bentley’s office, tapped on the door, but walked in without waiting for an answer Bentley was on the phone He was a bigas any er division

Bentley see and ended his conversation

"What the hell did you send an dean stood there stiffly for a hed and took the chair in front of Bentley’s desk "Sir--"

"Oh, don’t ‘sir’for that"

"I’ve been good atto get you onto a tea to be on the Texas level or on the national level?" Bentley ood, Logan And if I’m honest, it’s with this new team Your instincts have helped us in hundreds of cases You have the sort of mind that reads others, and you’ve predicted the course of a perp’s actions a dozen tiht we’d lost you after Alana died, but you headed out to that rock you love so er I’d like to keep you, but when the request comes down from the top of the food chain, you do what you need to do"

"I’m told I have a choice"

"You do You have time to think about this"