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“D-Dad?” Detective Pro Thompson stammered, as the two officers and her partner stared in disbelief

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An hour later, while Chu tapped away at a keyboard, Pro stared through the one-way glass at her father in the interrogation rooet his phone call?”

Chu didn’t look up but continued to type “He even got two”

“Two?”

“Yeah, one was to his lawyer,” Chu replied, and stopped to look up at his partner “So, you want to tell uy?”

“Not lass, her ht line

“Oh, really?” Chu blurted “He slips out of a pair of regulation handcuffs like taking off a bracelet Then you call hi I know, he clams up, says he won’t talk to anyone without his lawyer At least we got him down here without any trouble But you’ve hardly said tords since we picked him up”

“I was just surprised to see him,” Pro fumed, still unable to look away “His name is Maxwell Martin, but you probably know him as Max Marvell”

“That ht he worked in Vegas”

“He did I mean, he does I mean, I don’t knohy he’s here” Pro put her folded index finger to her lips in thought

“You called hiht your dad was a cop You told o?”

Pro turned to face her partner, and her eyes grew hard “Joe Thompson was technically my stepfather But to me he was my father He was a beat cop and an inspiration He was the reason I went into law enforceer “This guy is just a mistake my mother made”

“Okay, I still need a littlegesture

Pro sighed heavily “Max and my mom were married, and I was born”