Kelly 08 by Jan Burke

Author:Jan Burke [Burke, Jan]
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2010-04-07T21:37:00.848000+00:00

He sighed. "Maybe you'll feel a little less hostile toward me if I tell you that I have no plan to use your son as a pawn."

"Don't bother, because I won't believe you. Any more than I believe the crap you've given Yvette about believing in Phil's innocence."

"I do believe in his innocence."

She rolled her eyes. "Try that on someone who's never been a cop. I've been there, remember? And I know you can lie like the devil--the laws are set up so that you're free to tell anyone just about anything in order to learn what you want to know. So bullshit Yvette if you like, but it won't work with me."

"You've been a cop, so you know what it's like to bust your ass for someone who is determined to give you nothing but grief."

"Cry me a river. Listen, I know you don't want to talk to my son. Not really. He wasn't even around when the trouble started. He can't help you. So--let's leave him out of it, all right?"

"I'm here because he wanted to talk to me. I'm not out to hurt him. Whether you like it or not, he's learned something about his father today and--"

"Exactly my point--can't you just let him think of Phil as the hero he was? Do you have to take that away from him?"

"Who says I am trying to?"

"Don't give me that act!" she said furiously. "The Las Piernas Police Department has not sent you here to be helpful--I know, I worked for them."

"You should consider rejoining the force. You'd fit right in--not twenty-four hours after I got back from the mountains, the guys I work with had all the answers, too."

"Don't ever compare me with those assholes again!" she said.

This is going nowhere, he thought. Sooner or later, he'd need to talk to her about Lefebvre, and he wasn't exactly doing a fine job of building rapport. He slowly let out a breath, tried to recover his temper. "All right, I won't compare you to them," he said, keeping his voice even. "I know the department hasn't been great where the family's concerned. But if I'm going to clear Phil Lefebvre's name, I'll need your help."

She gave him a look that said she had no faith in him whatsoever, but said, "You have questions for me, ask away."

"Look, we're off to a bad start here--"

"We haven't got any kind of start at all, because nothing is building from here--you understand?"

He didn't say anything. After a moment, he saw the tension in her shoulders ease, saw them lower as she relaxed slightly--as if the effort of maintaining this level of anger with him had gradually become too much for her.

When he saw this change, he began. He asked a few easy questions--yes or no questions, ones to which he knew she would always answer yes: She had been promoted to detective faster than any other woman before, right? Commendations during her patrol work? Then worked in Narcotics? About two years

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