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"Grant's stepdaughter is an old friend He was a bastard to those two kids, beating them bo
th What a psychopath"
"He's a real case, if what the task force thinks happened is true Like I say, they're building a case against him"
I nodded "What do you want from me?"
"I want you to lie low for a week or so until the stuff with Stepan settles down Can you take a vacation or so you up, bring you down to the station, then have you released on bail"
"I could go to Quantico for a week, but it's really inconvenient" Then I thought I could kill two birds with one stone—get out of town and investigate what I could about Spencer and his ti after pretty little Eastern European girls who thought they were co to the USA to become rich and famous…
"We either pick you up now or later, but it would be best to let things die down a bit before we take you in, get everything in place It would be good to have you stay in lockup for a while Make your bones with the Russians, so to speak"
"I'd rather not, but I survived Hell Week, so I think I can survive a week in lockup"
"I'll see what I can arrange"
Then, we parted, Millar driving off in one direction and me in the other
As Millar suggested, I left Boston for a week, spending time in Alexandria If I had to lay loanted to achieve so was to track down intel on Spencer Grant and the possibility he was a fucking pedophile pervert who trafficked in Russian iht have harmed Celia in so else
While in Alexandria, I called on contacts I had in Virginia, tracing Spencer's past before he’d met Celia's mother andhiround for me Bill O'Donnell had worked for DC police in their cyber-crimes unit and was now retired, but had a PI business on the side An agingpotbelly and a shaved head, he had an easy sh
I liked him the first time I met him years earlier
"What can you tell me about these kinds of scum?" I asked e met at a bar in Alexandria
"What can I tell you? Too uts out Often, pedophiles belong to ultra-secret networks that operate on the dark web They're difficult to infiltrate, but thisabove board, look legit They appear to be just a group offor new talent If you want to dig up dirt on a suspect, I'll have to have o on than just a name"