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One.
Bit.
The people in the family had begun working without him.
Yeah, no surprise there. That was just proof that they didn’t value him as a part of this team.
It was also one more reason he wanted to go back to work as a cop. Yes, he tossed his badge, literally, for them, but they didn’t value what he really brought to the table.
And they never would.
He was an investigator.
A cop.
A civil servant.
They only saw him as Gene’s fiancé and nothing more. His value there was less than the man he’d been planning on marrying, and that sucked.
He should be an equal.
Instead, Tommy’s only role was the babysitter to Violet, and nothing more.
Oh, he was good enough to bake cookies, and feed everyone, but they would never see him as someone who solved things for a living.
Yeah, that wasn’t the life he wanted.
He’d tracked a serial killer for sixteen years. He’d followed him and worked damn hard at finding him. Had the FBI not swooped in, he would have gotten revenge for his friend.
Really.
Instead, he was nothing more than the family maid and that didn’t work for him.
Gene kept him from his potential, and he saw that now. Granted, it wasn’t malicious.
It was to ‘protect’ him.
To be honest, Tommy hated that more than anything. It was clear he didn’t trust him.
Yes, Gene was protective, but Tommy was a cop to his core. He had been a police captain, and an equal.
Right?
As he came into the room, everyone looked over.
“Sorry. Am I interrupting?” he asked.
Maura smiled at him and then reassured him that he wasn’t.
“Nope. We are about to get started. You’re right on time.”
Somehow, he doubted that.
Not far away, his once fiancé was leaning against the wall, Ethan Blackhawk not far from him.
Of course, he wasn’t.
This was more and more evident as time went on. He could see that the man he’d committed himself to was still bound to the married man.
