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Detective Andreas now long dead, a loss that Harris had mourned quietly and privately, with the help of the cheap vodka he drank out of a coffee cup As if the act of drinking out of chipped ceramics would’ve made it okay He never missed a workout or a day of work, so he didn’t have a problem

His partner, Lucia, enty years younger than him She’d risen up the ranks quickly with deterest detectives the force had ever had and one of the few that were feht her over fro for a better life for their daughter Harris knew that this violent, dangerous job was not what they wanted for their little girl He knew this because she told hi naked in his bed

Fucking his partner was bad Arguably worse when she enty years his junior and there was a significant power balance according to the last sexual harassment seminar he attended But Lucia was one of the most powerful women he knew, and she had made it clear she wanted to fuck hined to hi with beautiful, bronzed skin, wide hazel eyes and a great fucking rack

She fucked hi to die the next day, to the point that Harris was certain she would kill hio

He’d discovered that she wanted to bring the Catalano fa on her back, her body covered in a thin sheen of sweat They’d killed her father when she was nine years old He’d testified against them in a murder case One that they’d beaten despite the eyewitness testi business owner

Bullet in his head the next week

Everyone kneho it was

Everyone knehat it was

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Her hter into the force, into this career She’d beco only as necessary to feed her family Harris knew their relationship was strained because Lucia resented her rier

Harris suspected that her ned to what ht the Catalanos You did not speak against the your family with silence and inaction

Harris also knew the reason his twentyso of sex was because she had some unresolved father issues

And he didn’t give a fuck

He had once been a good man A man with values Morals But that man had been beaten down, chiseled at,in a crooked department for years