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Thompson said, “TMI, Rosella. Anyone need coffee?”
“Bad for the baby,” Salazar said.
“I’ll take a small one,” Bree said.
Thompson left. Salazar said, “I’m not expecting him to say much. Just doing this as a courtesy for the lieutenant before I go on serious maternity leave.”
“How long?”
“Six months,” she said, smiling and then yawning. “I’m going to need it.”
Salazar’s partner returned with coffee ten minutes later. Bree was mixing in cream and stevia when Volkov’s attorney knocked on the doorjamb.
“My client has something valuable to trade,” he said to the assistant DA. “In return, you take life without parole off the table.”
“After he killed three people in cold blood?” Ellis laughed. “I don’t think so.”
Andreyev said, “You will think differently when you hear what he has to tell you.”
“Can’t take anything off the table unless I have some idea of what he’s offering.”
“How about the person behind the Paula Watkins and the Frances Duchaine killings? All of the killings.”
Bree said, “He knows?”
Volkov’s attorney looked at her. “Who are you?”
“It doesn’t matter,” Ellis said. “Answer the question.”
Andreyev nodded. “He knows who hired him to kill Duchaine and he knows who tried to hire him to do the Watkins murders.”
The assistant DA studied him. “This better be solid.”
“He’s betting his life on it.”
CHAPTER 100
Washington, DC
MAHONEY DRAGGED LIU ANDMoore in handcuffs into FBI headquarters and marched them through the halls to a processing unit.
“Separate rooms?” Ned asked as they were fingerprinted, had their mug shots taken, and were dressed in jailhouse jumpsuits.
“No,” I said. “Together. We want them to turn on each other in real time.”
“Moore has intelligence training, probably interrogation training. I say we focus on Liu. She’s more likely to break.”
“Agreed. She can be all over the map, and Moore’s a stoic.”
“You lead, then.”
“You’re sure?”
“This is your best game, Alex. Play it.”
Sampson walked up to us, shaking his phone. “You’re going to like what just came back on the Kane murder weapon.”
He showed us and I smiled.
