In The Line of Fire (Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night) by Rhiley McCabe

Author:Rhiley McCabe
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

He checked his wristwatch again: 17:41.

“I’ll sign. Give me the paper so I can get out of here.”

Jason dropped his arms, “Wait, what?”

“What are you, deaf?” Thompson stretched out his short legs underneath the table and rubbed over his wounded arm, “I said give me the damn paper to sign!”

“Federico, if this is some kind of game…”

“Increíble! You’ve been threatening me this whole time with my innocent kid. And now that I’m cooperating, you’re behaving even more like an ass.” Thompson crossed his arms angrily, “This is harassment.”

“I don’t get you, little man.” Jason flung out the chair opposite Thompson and fiddled in an envelope, “You’ve been wasting my time just to sign the document, anyway!” He checked his wristwatch again after pulling out the agreement.

“I’m sorry, Detective Williams,” Thompson replied sarcastically, “do you have somewhere to be?” He signed the agreement.

“As a matter of fact, I do.” Jason grabbed the agreement from underneath Thompson’s arms and shoved it into the envelope.

He uncuffed Thompson’s hands and gave him a phone, “Don’t let this leave your side.” He pointed a finger in his face, “If you have anything, call. It’s untraceable.” Thompson nodded with a smirk and got up.

“Don’t try anything stupid, little man. If you do, I’ll make sure everyone knows about your precious daughter.”

“You should stop calling me that, Detective Williams.” Thompson said as he walked out of the interrogation room, laughing triumphantly as we went.

“We had a solid case against him.” Mary said as she entered Jason’s office an hour later.

“Yeah. But you know how it is upstairs.” Jason replied absent-mindedly. He had to get home to Catherine, and a ridiculous amount of paperwork was holding him back.

“So, where’s the woman with Federico’s daughter now?”

Jason eyed Mary, “Safe.”

“Give me the address, I can check on them, make sure they’re okay. You have a movie night with a special lady, remember?”

Jason smiled, “Yeah…” He continued with his paperwork, “I’ll check on them soon enough. The mother knows how to reach me if there’s an emergency.” He looked up at Mary with a smile. She nodded without an expression and turned around to leave.

“Don’t let Federico get to you.”

“Huh?” She flung around.

“What he said,” Jason looked down at his paperwork and scribbled something, “earlier.” He looked up at her, “About how you look like the kind who can be bought.” He put his pen away and pushed down on the desk as he got up.

“Oh, are you kidding? I forgot about it the second it was over.” She smiled. Jason stared at her, puzzled.

“I have never seen you smile.”

She immediately made a straight face.

“You should do it more often.” He smiled at her and left in a hurry.

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