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I’M PROPPED UP WHEN Detective Kunes enters the room

“I have to say you look ”

“I feel better, too”

“Mr Hemnway tells me you plan to testify in the case”

“I want them for all they’ve done”

He nods “Our case is strong with your testimony, even if it’s just you”

“What?”

“Mr Hemnway hasn’t returned any of our calls We’ve counted him out”

Grittinghis son”

“I understand that I sympathize with him A man isn’t meant to bury his child It should always be the other way around But our lawyers can’t build a case around soht be a no show” The detective shakes his head, and expression I can’t quite read upon his face “We advised him he’d be safest under our protection, but he declined”

“He said no?”

“No, but I took his silence as answer enough”

I dead in a pool of his own blood fill my head I hadn’t talked to him in days Efia kept me posted remotely I know he’d buried Rolly, so I’d backed off and let him have his solitude Stupid

“And if he changed his mind?”

“Then we’d be uy to walk”