Sinful Desire (A Mayet Justice Book Book 4) by Emilia Finn

Author:Emilia Finn [Finn, Emilia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beelieve Publishing, Pty Ltd
Published: 2022-10-06T16:00:00+00:00

MINKA

“Could you look at this?” Stiff-legged and still pissed at me, Aubree stops at my office door holding a manila folder in her hands. Her jaw is tight. Her eyes laser-focused.

When I set my pen down and sit back in my chair to give her my attention, she starts forward, but presses her lips together when her shoes squeak on the tile.

Yesterday, she made that sound on purpose, then right after, giggled about farting shoes.

Today, she’s mad and unwilling to smile.

I know. I was a jerk.

“What is it?” I extend my hand when Aubree offers the folder, and setting it on my desk while she lowers into the visitor chair—as opposed to sitting her ass on the corner of my desk, like she usually does—I open the file and spy a scan of a brain.

“I ran her by CT before slicing her open.” Sitting entirely too stiffly, Aubree Emeri is the astute professional when she’s been slighted. I wonder, is this the Doctor Emeri that my predecessor worked with? “I haven’t labeled the scans,” she continues. “One is Melissa, and one is randomly selected, purely so we can compare. Once you’ve studied them, I’ll tell you who is who.”

“Okay.”

Taking out the pictures and holding them side by side, one in each hand, I focus on the one in my left. Then in my right.

I already know whose is whose.

“Patient on the left suffered an intraventricular hemorrhage.” Setting the images on my desk, I grab my pen again and move it around the edges of the bleed. “Quite a big one. The scan on the right suffered no such bleed. Left scan shows damage to the frontal horn and sylvian cistern. The right does not. Both show symmetry, though the scan on the left shows a shift. Unilateral effacement. Fracture in the bone. No such fracture on the right.”

Picking up the image on the right, I offer it back to Aubree. “This is Melissa. And this,” I pick up the other, “makes me think a guy rammed his head into an oncoming train. What else are you showing me?”

“There’s a shadow here.” Offering back Melissa’s scan, she leans over my desk and points with the very tip of her little finger. “It’s so freakin’ light, I didn’t see it for ages. It’s possible it’s nothing at all and there was a screwup with the CT. But for right now, on this scan, it’s there. I can’t unsee it, Doctor Mayet.”

I roll my eyes at her formal use of my name. “Good spotting. Now what do you think this is? And how the hell does it play into our homicide?”

“I don’t know.” She drops back again with a huff. “But check out the roadrunner’s scan.” She picks it up. “He has the same shadow. The rest is different, but the shadow remains, which means either our CT is going to hell and you need to squeeze a new one out of the budget—”

“That’s half a million dollars,” I drawl. “Not sure the mayor likes us that much.

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