so much evidence now, even I’d doubt me if I didn’t know.”
“Don’t you have…a partner or something?”
He gave a one-shouldered shrug. “We’re a small department. We pretty much run solo. My bad luck. If I had a partner to back me up, they’d know I didn’t do it.”
“And the cops investigating you think you did.”
He lowered his head and rubbed his eyes, and she wondered if he’d had any sleep at all since this had all come down. “Seems that way.”
“Then you need help. All you can get.”
His head came up. One corner of his mouth quirked in what appeared to be bemusement. “You’re determined, aren’t you?”
“I’m not the scared weakling I was eight years ago,” she said.
“You may have been scared,” he said softly, “but you weren’t weak. You acted, which was more than anybody else in there did.”
“So let me again. Maybe Redstone can help, and they won’t hurt.”
“I’m not sure even the all-powerful Redstone can help,” he said, sounding suddenly exhausted.
A voice from the doorway cut across the room like a low rumble of thunder.
“Don’t count on that.”
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