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This guy didn’t seem to feel like he was being second-guessed. Maybe the community of law enforcement in Benson was better than that. Close. A team. At least Liam had that. She was gaining it with Vanguard, but even still, it would take time.
A crowd of people had gathered down the street. More than one officer had taken someone aside, talking to them and writing in a notebook.
“Roxie?”
She pushed off the car and followed Liam to the front door. The officer gave her an odd frown. She flashed her Vanguard ID just in case that settled things. Often, it did in Benson since the CEO had married one of the PD lieutenants.
Liam entered the house.
“Not sure I’m supposed to be inside the residence.” She stepped in behind him.
“Let’s do a walk through. I want your impression.”
“Because we worked so many missing persons’ cases in Afghanistan?”
Liam didn’t look at her, he scanned the entryway. “You know what a fight looks like. What the aftermath looks like, right?”
It was an odd question with a leading tone. “Are you using whatever happened with this woman to find out more about me, as in, I’ll be so empathetic, I’ll say too much?”
“I multitask. And you’re safer next to me.”
“He’s not going to jump out of the shadows and shoot me. Or shoot me without ever leaving the shadows.” If that were the case, she’d have set up to shoot him first. Fair was only fair. “Now let’s figure out what happened to your friend.”
Liam kept looking, and she stuck with him, searching the area around where he was also so they didn’t miss anything.
“She’s the sister of a CI of mine. And it’s looking like she was dragged into the same thing her sister was trying to get out of.”
“With the Russians?”
Liam nodded, opening the closet doors in the bedroom. “Possibly. And it got her sister killed. But she said she wanted nothing to do with them.”
“Maybe that’s the problem.” Roxie lowered herself to look under the bed. “Phone. Your side.” She lifted up to kneeling and motioned. “Under the skirt.”
The device looked like it had slid under the bed. Or been placed there to hide it.
Liam took a look. “That isn’t her phone. And we need crime scene techs to handle it.”
Roxie let out a sigh. “I don’t think I’d make a good cop. I don’t like rules that much, I feel like they were made to be broken.”
Liam looked up from his own phone and smiled. “Rules keep us safe.”
She sucked in a breath at the words Mark had drilled into her. His rules, of course.
He frowned. “Roxie?”
“I don’t like rules.” She got up and headed out, moving through the house to look at the empty kitchen and dining area. The back door was open.
“Hey.”
She glanced back at Liam. “Maybe she left? Or was dragged out?”
He nodded, a soft look on his face. “Tell me who sent you that snake?”
She sucked in a sharp breath. “I need to go outside.” She started to move by him, but Liam caught her arm. “I need air.”
“Don’t walk away from this. Let me help you.”
“I need to do this myself, or I’ll give away the will and the strength I haveagain.If I let you fix the problem, then I’ll never learn how to stand up on my own.”
