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“Marco’s in holding We can keep hiht it best to let him think behind bars for a while He still refuses counsel”

Whitney stepped in while she stood there, and he looked around He wasn’t often in this sector of the coht of command

She could have had a bigger office She’d earned one But she seemed to prefer to work in a room so small that if three people crowded into it, they’d be in sin

“Good thing you’re not claustrophobic,” he coave no response, didn’t so much as twitch an eyebrow Whitney muttered an oath “Listen, Dallas—”

“Sir” Her interruption was fast and brittle “Forensics has the weapon retrieved froelini’s room I’m informed that there will be some delay on the results as the blood traces detected by the sweeper are of an a and DNA”

“So noted, Lieutenant”

“The fingerprints on the weapon in evidence have been elini My report—”

“We’ll get to your report momentarily”

Her chin jutted up “Yes, sir”

“Goddamn it, Dallas, yank that stick out of your butt and sit down”

“Is that an order, Commander?”

“Ah, hell,” he began

Mirina Angelini burst through the doorway in a clatter of high heels and a crackle of silk “Why are you trying to destroyhand of Slade who had come in behind her

“Mirina, this isn’t going to help”

She jerked away and crowded into Eve “Isn’t it enough that my mother was murdered on the street? Murdered because A out useless reports to protect the innocent?”