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“I’ to have me out of the picture while you questioned my father Rather unethical, wouldn’t you say?”
A spark of amusement flickered in Williams’s eyes “The DA must have been very sorry to lose you I know the Bureau is Now I knohy You’re quite the steamroller”
“That’s not an answer”
“It wasn’t intended to be The reason I ca was to clarify a few loose ends with your father So information came out of our talk It obviously upset him He requested that his attorney be present I i questions In fact, we haven’t exchanged a word since he called you—several tial”
“Let’s not play semantics” Chin raised, Sloane stared him down “I want to knoas discussed”
“Gladly” Williams played back the entire conversation
It wasn’t much different than Sloane had expected
“I want a few minutes with my client”
“By all means” Williams made a wide sith his arm, then picked up his coffee cup “May I trouble you for a refill while you talk?”
“Certainly Dad, you wait for ent Williams his coffee” Sloane stopped her father as he took a step toward the kitchen He was a wreck The last thing he needed to do was to spill coffee on a shrewd agent who already suspected him of murder or conspiracy to murder
She took the empty cup from Williams as her father followed her instructions “How do you take it?”
“Just black” Williams still looked amused, which infuriated the hell out of Sloane “I appreciate it”
“No problem You can leave a tip on the table” She was in and out of the kitchen and in the breakfast nook with her father in under a minute
“Dad, listen toboth their backs to Agent Williams “You’ve run out of choices—especially once the NYPD finds out what happened to Mo It’s either risk prosecution on cries or tell the FBI the truth” She waved away her father’s objections before he could voice them “I have some stipulations I plan to ent Williaree to them—after he makes a few phone calls and escorts us to the Field Office so that you can’t taed evidence”
“What kind of stipulations?” her fatherdubious and hopeful all at once