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“Not much yet.”
“Let’s get everyone on this,” Sam said.
Freddie and her sergeant, Tommy Gonzales, rounded up the other dayshift detectives—Green, O’Brien and Charles.
They were about to leave when Captain Malone appeared in the pit. “You’re on the situation in Cathedral Heights?”
“Yes, sir,” Sam said. “On our way now.”
“Keep me in the loop.”
“Will do.”
“Sam.”
She turned back to him.
“I heard it’s ugly. Four kids involved. Bring Trulo in as needed.”
Nodding, she turned away from him and jogged to catch up with her team, steeling herself for the gruesome scene.
“What’d he say?” Gonzo asked.
“That it’s a bad one.”
“Aren’t they all?”
“Some are worse than others.”
While Sam and Freddie got into her Secret Service SUV, the others headed to their cars. Freddie gave Vernon the address in Cathedral Heights.
“Use the lights, please, Vernon,” Sam said.
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Anything online about it?” Sam asked Freddie.
He scrolled through his phone. “Nothing yet, but there’s a helluva lot about Nick’s mother.”
Sam sighed. “That’s all my fault.”
“It’s not your fault she was running a prostitution ring, Sam.”
“It’s my fault that the FBI investigated her.”
“Did you work it out with Nick?”
“Yeah. As usual, he’s triggered by her, but he was so pissed when I told him I’d asked Avery to investigate her and failed to mention that to him. I haven’t seen him that angry in a long time.”
“He’s not mad at you. He’s mad at her.”
“And I know that, but the anger was directed at me. It was unnerving.”
“I’m sure it was, but at least he had warning this was coming. It might’ve blown up without a warning if you hadn’t gotten Avery involved.”
“I guess so. Nick was wondering if she’d dropped his name to the officers when he saw the coverage on TV this morning.”
“Of course she did.”
