The Girl and the Deadly End by A.J. Rivers

Author:A.J. Rivers [Rivers, A.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

I didn’t expect my visit to the headquarters to go quickly. It was never going to be as simple as just walking in and having a meeting with Creagan. This used to be where I spent every day working. For a few years, I saw the inside of FBI headquarters more than I did my own home. In fact, there were more nights than I like to admit that I spent on a cot in the barrack-room rather than making the drive back to my house. Especially in the midst of a difficult case, when I needed every second I could possibly juice out of the day to concentrate on untangling the clues or planning operations, it was just easier to be able to drop down for an hour or two then roll right back up than it would be to commute.

Now it’s been so long since I even stepped foot in the building, and my colleagues are eager to stop me and talk. I have to be careful about what I say to each of them. Despite the FBI’s record for secrecy, there’s very little discretion when it comes to sharing case details with your colleagues. It’s kind of an open secret. What I say to one will eventually trickle its way to others, so I have to be sure to give the exact same details and reasoning to each. It’s not quite the same as juggling elaborate lies, but I feel like I’m putting the truth through a sifter. All the fine details fall away, and I offer up only the most prominent, unobtrusive facts.

I don’t mention Greg. I don’t know if word of him waking up has made it here yet, and even if it has, I don’t want to get caught up in conversations about him. That’s not why I’m here. I can’t afford to get distracted. Everything I’m trying to piece together will bring the man who brutalized him to justice. But I have to find him first.

Once I get through all the unpleasant small talk, it’s time to face Creagan. I don’t know how he’s going to react to my request. Particularly after I let him know I’m not requesting the full backing of the Bureau, or for them to get involved in the investigation again. This is all I need from him. Nothing more.

I knock on the door tentatively.

“Come in,” his gruff voice comes. I enter to see him poring over files on his desk. After a second passes, he finally looks up at me.

“Griffin,” he says with a mild note of surprise as if he hadn’t actually seen who I was.

“Creagan, I need a favor.”

“Is this another one of your personal cases?”

I take a deep breath. “Sort of?”

He rubs his temples and sets his jaw. “Griffin, how many times do we have to have this conversation? I can’t use Bureau resources to look into your personal—"

“It’s about my mother’s murder,” I interrupt him.

That gives him pause. I tell him the version

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