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Then he stared at her, eyes hard.
“It is not safe for you to be here, Kara.”
“What’s going on?”
“Dammit, Kara, you’re not this dense.”
She bristled. “This is a cop shop. I’m safest here.”
“Not anymore.”
She didn’t want to ask, but she did. “Why?”
He was wrestling with something, and she couldn’t believe he didn’t want to tell her.
“What are you keeping from me?”
“I can’t talk here. Shit. I told Dyson not to let you come back.”
Now she knew something was going on. “What the fuck, Lex? Is this about Chen?”
In a low voice, he said, “You are not an idiot. This hearing is a smoke screen. As soon as you walked into this building, Chen knew where you were.”
“So what? He knows I’ll be in court this afternoon.”
But then it clicked.
“Here. There’s a cop here in headquarters who is working for Chen?” The realization made her sick to her stomach. “You know who it is?”
Lex shook his head. “It’s not just your case that was compromised. I have someone I trust deep cover and that’s all I’m going to say about that.”
Kara stared at him. “And you didn’t tell me?”
“You don’t work for me anymore, Quinn.”
She felt like she’d been slapped. “Not now, but—”
“Not ever. You can’t come back, not until I know that every fucking prick that works for Chen is gone. And even if he goes to prison—and that’s a big fucking if—he still has people. It’s not just Chen. And if you would get your head out of your ass long enough to think, you’d realize Chen’s operation couldn’t have worked for so long unless he had someone high, high up protecting him.”
She slowly rose from her seat. She felt gut punched.
You can’t come back...
“You have work,” she mumbled and turned to leave.
“Stop.”
She did, but she didn’t look at him. She was shaking. Anger that there was a bad cop in this building. Frustration that she wasn’t here to root him out. Sorrow that Lex didn’t want her back.
She felt...lost.
“Kara, I didn’t mean to take this all out on you. It isn’t your fault.”
“I get it. Goodbye.”
She walked out and Lex didn’t stop her. She heard something break behind his door, but it gave her no joy.
When Michael met her in the hall he said, “What happened?”
