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Daniel

“Are you sure, Daddy?” she asks, and it’s not her reverting to little She’s in shock, so I scoop her up and carry her into lad I don’t have a proper shower, but instead a bathtub with a hose Once she’s soaking, I coes from some story in her Kindle by an author appropriately named Lena Little, based on the content of her work

That seems to put her at ease, and allows rab her sooes by ‘The Fed Fixer’

Thirty minutes later he’s atwhen I arrived at the apart me know someone had entered or exited at the time, and a quick check of the tiny security camera I just had installed, with live view hooked up to my phone, only confir beyond suspiciously

I didn’t even bother going in the front, knowing he’d had the door shut and possibly a hostage situation Luckily the other night I’d already climbed up to herso I knew it could be done, quickly, quietly, and stealthily And the best part is there was a nearbythat would provide a reflection so I’d be able to see everything that was transpiring inside her apartment

The Fixer shakes his head “Clear cut self-defense, or at least it could be swung that way pretty easily in court But here’s the easiest part about it…I ran his name and that school you said he worked at on the way over He’s not an off-duty cop As a matter of fact he’s not qualified for any type of security profession He shouldn’t even be allowed to guard…” his eyes look around the room, “one of these stuffed animals he’s so incompetent” He pauses “His name is obviously an alias, the Epstein choice beyond a bad joke, and how he pulled off the off-duty cop thing we’ll have to look into, but we have federal offenses herehere is justified The question is how do you want to play this?”

“We can have an anonymous person call it in later in the day, you happen to be in the area and show up, putting together all the pieces based on his fake IDs” I pause “Or we just play it like it is and I’m stuck here in town probably a month or two, and my location is revealed since I’uys and the bad a chance to track me and my woman down”

The usually stoic Fixer jerks his head back “Did you say…my woman?”

I smirk “Yeah, I’m surprised as you are that I met the one”

“You never even dated”

“Not gonna waste my time with that stuff I was never available, but what I realize now is I was available, but only for her I aiting on her to find me, or vice versa, whether I knew it or not”

“Case closed then Since there’s a woman involved that means it’s called in later in the day I’ll look for a diner to sit in for a while until then You know a place?” He sether by now and figured out I was involved in the thwarted robbery attempt at Diana’s old place of employment within the last week

“I know a place, but clearly you do too”

“And I know you’re going to land on your feet, you always do,” he reinforces, putting his hand on my shoulder

“Thanks, buddy”