“We don’t want to be out in the open for long, so get in, get what you need, and get out.”
She hated to be the one who pissed on their parade, but that wasn’t conducive to her job.
“Guys, if I’m trying to find this guy, I have to look around and take my time. I’m fast, and I’m good, but I’m human. Missing one thing could be detrimental.”
Raphael didn’t like this.
Not.
At.
All.
“Inside, you can take your time. Outside, where we can get shot or hurt, not acceptable.”
Well, then, it was a good thing this crime scene was inside because there was no doubt in her mind Devon would have left her something to suck her into this mess even more.
“You do your thing,” Uriel said, “and we will do ours. That’s why we were assigned to you and not Ivan for this one,” he admitted. “Archangels have a little more close-quarters combat than MRR. Ivan is good, but he’s not an Archangel.”
She knew he’d hate that.
“If he hears you saying that, his undies are going to be in a twist, and you know it.”
Caspian smiled.
“I know. That’s why I said it,” he teased.
Well, apparently, she was being held hostage by two men she considered her children.
Good to know.
As they drove, she knew when they arrived at the crime scene location.
It was a gas station on the outskirts ofCorpus Christiwhere the bodies were found, but it was surrounded by about twenty cop cars and a bunch of deputies.
Well, the International Space Station could see the lights from all the way up there.
There was nothing like doing somethingINCOGNITO.
Jesus.
H.
Christ.
Talk about overkill. It was either a really bad scene, or every yahoo deputy with some time on their hands felt like showing up to be part of the show.
It looked like they were about to find out which it was.
As Raphael rolled up to the tape, he dropped the window so that the police on the scene could see who was approaching. Granted, they likely figured it out by the big, blacked-out vehicle.
“I have the FBI onboard,” he said, as she stuck her badge out the window for them to see.
Immediately, the deputy pointed.
“We were told to look out for you, Director. The sheriff is inside. I hope you have a strong stomach.”
Well, she did, but not for this bullshit.
