In Search of Justice by Katie Holmburg

Author:Katie Holmburg [Holmburg, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-04T22:00:00+00:00

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Aletta was back at her desk, having been cleared by the healer in record time. She’d complained about going, but she would’ve gone anyway just to put Lirim and Cy’s minds at ease. Well, Cy’s, at least. Lirim was on her list of people she was not speaking to at the moment. Rearranging the case file in a different order in hopes of seeing something new, she absently glanced up at the captain’s door. What was taking Lirim so long? She scowled. He was probably convincing Jones to pull her off of the case right now.

She would’ve vented her ire at the idea to Cy, but he’d turned tail and fled as soon as she’d gotten back to her desk. Sure, it was under the pretense of taking the CD she’d found to Ian, after thoroughly scolding her for interfering with a crime scene, but she knew it was to escape her complaining and get some quiet. She snorted. Big, bad Lycan fleeing after maybe ten minutes with an angry female. She’d tease him about it sometime, after she regained her usual good humor, that is.

Seeing Lirim emerge from the office, she turned her attention back to the case file, deliberately snubbing him. Yelling hadn’t seemed to dent his resolve; maybe the silent treatment would get his foolishness through to him. It was worth a try, anyway and she knew the supers in the department would appreciate the lack of noise. She’d seen several wince when she’d hit a particular pitch earlier.

Keeping track of him from the corner of her eye, not that she’d ever admit it aloud, she watched as he headed for his desk. He opened a drawer and fished around for a moment before grabbing something and making a beeline for her desk. He stopped in front of her desk and waited patiently for her to look up. Torn between ignoring him and telling him to get lost, she looked up, only to find a candy bar extended towards her. He smiled winningly and said, “Truce?”

She eyed him suspiciously, glancing between his face and the candy bar. His expression seemed to be sincere, (and it was her favorite candy bar, the rich, dark chocolate one that carried just a hint of cherries), so she decided to let him off the hook just this once. Taking the candy bar, she nodded. “Truce.”

She narrowed her eyes warningly. “However, try to take me off the case again and all the candy bars in the world won’t save you, understand?”

“The captain needs to talk with us.”

Resigned (it was only to be expected after the ruckus they had made earlier), she carefully stowed the candy bar in her desk with a promise to herself to grab it later. Standing, she motioned for him to lead the way. Following him into Capt. Jones office, her mind spun rapidly. After insisting that she take the case, she didn’t think that he would pull her off of it, unless Lirim had been extremely eloquent.

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