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“For what?”

“The part you’re not telling me.”

I smiled a little. “Are you always this irritating?”

“Yes.” He didn’t smile back. “Women?”

My smile disappeared. “What about them?”

“Affairs, girlfriend, ex girlfriend, anybody emotionally attached to you who might’ve spoken to law enforcement, had access to your phone, your house, your vehicles, your employees, or your business.”

Kim immediately crossed my mind. I shifted in the chair and Moretti caught it.

“There.”

“There what?” I asked.

“That.” He pointed at me. “Who did you just think about?”

“Man…”

“Don’t waste my time.”

I looked away. Mark knew Agent Brown had been involved in the investigation. What I wasn’t sure I’d ever made clear was exactly how Brown was connected to Kim. At the time, I didn’t think it mattered. Now maybe it did.

“My side bitch.”

Moretti stared at me. “Your what?”

“You asked.”

“Name.”

“Kim.”

“Last name?”

I gave it to him and he wrote it down. “How does she fit into this?”

“Her father.”

Moretti stopped writing. “What about him?”

“He’s FBI.”

The whole room changed. Moretti slowly put his pen down. “Name.”

“Agent Brown.”

His eyes locked on mine. “Is Agent Brown involved in this investigation?”

“Yeah.”

“That’s her father?”

“Yeah.”

Moretti sat back for the first time since he walked into the room, that hard ass expression cracked. Not into a smile exactly but something close. “You’re telling me that one of the federal agents connected to this investigation is the father of the woman you were having an affair with?”