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Nash
The federal agents in my office were lucky for two reasons.
First, my left hook wasn’t what it had been before getting shot.
And second, I hadn’t been able to work my way up into feeling
anything, let alone mad enough to make me consider doing something stupid.
“The Bureau understands you have a personal interest in finding Duncan
Hugo,” Special Agent Sonal Idler said from across my desk where she sat
with a ramrod-straight spine. She flicked her gaze to the coffee stain on my
shirt.
She was a steely woman in a pantsuit who looked as though she ate
procedures for breakfast. The man next to her, Deputy U.S. Marshal Nolan
Graham, had a mustache and the look of a man forced into something he
really didn’t want to do. He also looked like he blamed me for it.
I wanted to work my way up to pissed off. Wanted to feel something
other than the great, sucking void that rolled over me, inevitable as the tide.
But there was nothing. Just me and the void.
“But we can’t have you and your boys and girls running around mucking
up my investigation,” Idler continued.
On the other side of the glass, Sergeant Grave Hopper was dumping a
pint of sugar into his coffee and glaring daggers at the two feds. Behind him,
the rest of the bullpen buzzed with the usual energy of a small-town police
department.
Phones rang. Keyboards clicked. Officers served. And the coffee sucked.
Everyone was alive and breathing. Everyone but me.
I was just pretending.
I crossed my arms and ignored the sharp twinge in my shoulder.
“I appreciate the professional courtesy. But what’s with the special
interest? I’m not the only cop to take a bullet in the line of duty.”
“You also weren’t the only name on that list,” Graham said, speaking up
for the first time.
My jaw tightened. The list was where this nightmare had begun.
“But you were the first one targeted,” Idler said. “Your name was on that
list of LEOs and informants. But this thing is bigger than one shooting. This
is the first time we’ve got something that could stick to Anthony Hugo.”
It was the first time I’d heard any kind of emotion in her voice. Special
Agent Idler had her own personal agenda, and nailing crime boss Anthony
Hugo to the wall was it.
“I need this case to be airtight,” she continued. “Which is why we can’t
have any locals trying to take matters into their own hands. Even if they’ve
got badges. The greater good always comes with a price tag.”
I rubbed a hand over my jaw and was surprised to find more than a fiveo’clock shadow there. Shaving hadn’t exactly been high on my priority list
lately.
She assumed I’d been investigating. Reasonable given the circumstances.
But she didn’t know my dirty little secret. No one did. I might be healing on
the outside. I might put on my uniform and show up at the station every day.
But on the inside, there was nothing left. Not even a desire to find the man
responsible for this.
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