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The girl winced when he squeezed her arm and finally I looked at her, little more than a child “Are you okay, honey?”

She nodded but it was filled with fear

“She’s fine, better than you’re gonna be For now”

I didn’t knohat heon it wouldn’t help me now “Jessica?”

Wide blue eyes snapped to ave a barely ioing

“Don’t worry about her naet out here Now!”

“I don’t have a boyfriend, Detective Maybe you could ask for him by name?”

“Cross I want to speak to Cross”

I kepthad instructed “He went to one of the dispensaries tonight, so about vandalism”

“Bullshit Get hi head” Jessica shrieked so loud it echoed in the air “Don’t ain”

“Ask as many times as you want Cross isn’t here But you know that, it’s why you showed up now, isn’t it?”

“You don’t knohat the fuck you’re talking about” He shook his head “I’ll never understand what the fuck wouys They’re criminals, you know that”

“And what, I should hook up with a uys are honest about who they are”

“A fucking gang, that’s who”

I laughed at his hypocrisy “And aren’t you part of the biggest gang around? I guess it’s hard to see when you’re in so deep, or maybe you don’t care that Pacheco is a pedophile Either way, uilty”