His partner had lied during an active homicide investigation, and that risked them both.
Only, before he could defend himself, his partner went there.
“I can explain,” she said.
Ethan glared at her partner.
“Did you know?” he asked Dannie, and his tone said it all.
This wasn’t a game they wanted to play. They’d let him in, and he’d talked them into letting her in. Now, this tainted the case in so many ways.
Dannie had to save himself, so he held his hands up in surrender.
“I just figured it out when I heard his name. I’ve never met him, personally, or seen him. I only knew because he called her desk phone once, and I took a message.”
They both looked at her.
“You should have come clean to us,” Gene said. “We let you work this. The second you saw her on the scene, you should have recused yourself. This just fucked our case!”
She tried to explain.
“It was an amicable breakup. We’re still friends. It was just a problem with our opposite work hours. He works at night…”
They didn’t care.
She dated a victim’s current boyfriend.
That tied her to the case and made her look suspicious. For all they knew, she was trying to kill her and bury the body in a group of others to throw them off.
That might be why they didn’t connect.
Ethan couldn’t believe this.
“Where do you live?” he asked.
Dannie sighed.
Oh, and he knew why.
“A block away fromThe Tipsy Easel,” she offered.
Well, fuck them sideways. That was the exact area where Gene got shot at, and two victims had been familiar with too. This was getting worse for the cop sitting in front of them.
Under his breath, Dannie muttered something.
“You just fucked us both by not saying something at the crime scene!”
Leah tried to defend herself.
“I know what you’re thinking…”
Oh, she had to have. They were both red. It was looking like they had let the fox into the henhouse after all.
Gene wasn’t having it.
“Go.”
When he stood, he pointed at the door.
