Cut and Run by Lori Ryan

Author:Lori Ryan [Ryan, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lori Ryan
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Cal stared at him. “You want to do what?” He didn’t give Jarrod a chance to answer. “Since when do we worry about protecting pharmaceutical companies? Or any company, for that matter?”

“We don’t, usually.” Jarrod didn’t know how to explain this.

Sure, he could go with the gut feeling excuse he’d been using all along. And his gut was coming into play here. He knew something was wrong.

Still, he tried to justify it some other way. He was asking Cal to do the unthinkable. He wanted to use his relationship with Carrie to get a meeting with Warrick Staunton without getting a warrant. If—no, when, because this was definitely a when kind of thing—Captain Calhoun found out, they could very well lose their jobs.

At the least, they would be treated to one of Calhoun’s very long what-the-hell-were-you-jackasses-thinking speeches. “If we file for a warrant, you know some reporter out there will get hold of it even if we try to keep it quiet. As soon as that warrant exists, this becomes a matter of public record. Simms Pharmaceutical employs a lot of people around here. Something like this could sink the company. All those employees would be sunk right along with it.”

Everything he said was the truth, but he never felt more like he was skating some razor thin line where any misstep could trash his career. He was ignoring for now the fact that he himself had to come to grips with what he was doing.

“I suppose you have an idea for how to proceed without a warrant?”

“Yeah. You go back to the station and work the case.” He didn’t want Cal taking the risk he was about to take. “I’ll go talk to Carrie and get her to get me in for a meeting with Warrick Staunton.”

“Oh hell no. We’re going together. No way I’m letting you question anyone on your own. Not with all the people who have dropped in this case already.”

Jarrod didn’t argue. Cal wouldn’t let him walk out of there any more than Jarrod would have if their roles had been reversed.

Twenty minutes later, he thought for sure Carrie was going to throw them out her office as soon as they told her what they wanted. But when he explained how the warrant process worked and she began to understand what was at stake for her friends, she made a call. She hadn’t asked to go through a secretary. He had a feeling she called Warrick Staunton’s cell phone directly, or maybe a personal line at his office. Whatever the case, she came through. Two hours after leaving her office, they were following Warrick Staunton’s secretary down the hallway at the headquarters of Simms Pharmaceutical.

She stepped in ahead of them and they heard the announcement of their arrival.

“Gentlemen,” Warrick offered his hand to each of them as Jarrod and Cal produced identification. “What can I do for you? Carrie was pretty vague on the phone. Does this have anything to do with Mark Coleman’s death?”

“Did you know Dr.

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