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A soft cough caught her attention, and she lowered her chin, catching sight of a couple walking past them toward the hospital entrance Their faces were drawn, a telling sign that who well

Chloe shivered She hated hospitals and avoided the the reht wasn’t about her, so she shoved those less-than-pleasing thoughts away as the couple vanished through the glass doors

After the doors whooshed shut, Sawyer finally said, “I want to kill him”

Chloe heard the battle between his desires and his morals in the coldness and hardness of his voice “I’ to think that Travis deserves that fate”

Sawyer turned to her, the streetla the other side in shadow “Which would be fine if I wasn’t a cop and bound to uphold the law”

Chloe nudged his arhten thewith you who, uh…”

“Skirts the law?” he offered

“I don’t skirt the law,” she defended “I stay perfectly within its parameters”

One brow arched at her

She laughed “Okay, fine, I push against its limits Is that better?”

“It’s at least closer to the truth,” he said, very ainst li breath, seeht?”

“Yeah, she’s resting now,” Chloe replied “Before she fell asleep, she said that a nurse had told her they did a rape kit, so I guess that’s good to have on file But she also said not to say anything to your parents She doesn’t want them to know”

“Not surprising,” Sawyer grumbled “My mother would baby her, and I know Ash wouldn’t want that” His eous man beside her “How in the hell do you do this job?”

Confused by his question, she said, “The same way you do this type of job”

“What you and I do is very different” His haunted eyes met hers “I don’t know the finer details of what happens behind a case I also don’t kno the criet a list of charges against a person Then I go and apprehend the with a team of men at my back I don’t do this alone You do”