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“Look,” he said evenly “This isn’t the sa is okay”

“Do that in teeks” Andy let out a heavy breath “You need to stop chasing criet the counselling you’re supposed to get and hopefully get your job back You want your job back, right?”

“You know I do”

“Well, you knohat to do”

Jack waited a beat

“I didn’t

iine the stuff the Chief is into I just couldn’t prove it”

“I know” Andy’s words said one thing, his tone screamed another Jack heard it loud and clear – ‘you couldn’t prove it, because it wasn’t real’

His shoulders sluuess hinition

“You’re doing the right thing,” Andy told his up now”

As Andy spoke bright lights flicked on behind the bushes There was a glohere his house used to be He’d only seen lights like that in a couple of places – football matches, airports and ho their own stash His blood puht

“Got to go,” he told Andy “Don’t coet me”

“Jack, Jack, don’t be stupid, put the car”

Jack hung up

In a few seconds he was out of the car and sneaking towards the house He knew she was up to no good The way she’d kept glancing at the house while she worried her lip The flush in her cheeks when she looked him in the eye and lied about what he would find inside, and the way she paled before de that he wait teeks He wasn’t stupid He was onto so here He knew it He followed the worn brick path around the side of the house, stepping off it into the bushes before he reached the rear