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Today, thankfully, was officially my last day to ith her

Tomorrow, I’d be on my own, and I couldn’t thank the captain more for that announcement as I’d arrived at work today

It’d coht—sex free due towith her despite her assurance that she was okay—and that set the pace of the whole day

After spending the last couple of hours with Brianna, I was fairly certain that she knew exactly what she was doing

She was rubbing salt in the wounds

“Nothing of i the day to end

I had about six hours left to deal with her, then I’d be done

At first, when I’d started at Paris PD, I hadn’t realized the ‘looks’ that I’d gotten Or understood the comments

But no I knew

Just yesterday, one of the older detectives had co a ‘vow breaker’ At the tiht that he’d meant that she was a rule breaker

But now I understood Brianna liked to break up relationships

I’d done enough of my own detective work over the last couple of days to finally understand all the offhanded comments that were made about her For instance, when I’d come in off my fourth or fifth shift with her, there’d been anext to a male cop—Brewster She’d taken one look at Brianna, and her face had shut down, going completely blank Brewster looked like he was about to start crying

And it was only now that I knew that at one point in ti

A fling that had only lasted a couple of days because it had been cut off quickly the moment that the woman found out about Brianna

Hell, fro to

And that hadn’t been the first relationship that Brianna had helped break up

All of a sudden, I couldn’t stop , “Brianna, why do you sleep with married men only? Or men that are in relationships?”

The silence in the car was heavy as that question sank underneath the surface

Then Brianna said, “I like the thrill of it The secrecy I cheated on my own husband for fifteen months, and he didn’t even notice That’s why I asked for a divorce”

There was a long, pregnant pause as we both took in her words, and then I said, “Why? Why do you do it at the office where you work? These men and women have to have your back If you stick a knife in every one of the to come to your aid if you’re hurt”

“They’ll coreed “It doesn’t es What ether”