The Girl He Watched by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2022-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Paige waited impatiently in the hospital for the doctors to say that they could talk to Fabiano, pacing up and down outside the room they were keeping him in.

“What were you thinking?”

It didn’t help that Christopher was anything but happy with the way she’d handled things up on the bridge.

“I was thinking that there was a suspect getting away,” Paige replied.

“An armed suspect, who you chased after alone,” Christopher replied. “You could have been hurt, Paige. You could have been killed.”

Paige might almost have been touched by the concern in his voice had it not been for the implications of what he was saying.

“So, what? You should have been the one to go after him alone instead?” Paige would have been just as afraid for him as he clearly was for her.

“Yes! I’m the more experienced agent. I’m the one who’s . . .”

“Who’s what?” Paige demanded. “I’m a fully trained FBI agent, Christopher. I’m trained to do this. You can’t try to protect me from danger.”

“But I should,” Christopher said. “I’ve done more of this than you. You’re a psychologist.”

“I’m an agent!” Paige snapped back. “I’ve done the training. I’ve played a key part in taking down five killers and several other criminals. I faced down a serial killer even before I was an agent. So, don’t tell me that I can’t chase after bad guys.”

There was something almost insulting about him trying to protect her like that. Like he didn’t trust her to be able to do her job. A part of Paige knew that it just came from the fact that he cared about her, but he’d already told her after they’d kissed that they couldn’t be together. If that was true, then he couldn’t try to hold her back and keep her from doing her job.

“When you shot him, was he coming at you?” Christopher asked.

Paige nodded. “He still had the knife, he’d advanced several steps, and he tried to charge me.”

She knew all of that might be important in the future. She had to be able to demonstrate that she’d used force correctly when she’d fired her weapon, and on a lonely bridge that might be hard to prove. Maybe there would be cameras on the bridge. Even if there weren’t, Paige felt certain that her version of events was likely to be believed when Fabiano had already stabbed someone.

It turned out, though, that it wasn’t what Christopher was worried about.

“And you didn’t put rounds center mass? You shot him in the shoulder?”

“I thought that I could take him down without killing him,” Paige said.

“You risked your own life doing that,” Christopher insisted. He sounded worried. “What if he’d been on PCP or meth? He was clearly high on something. What if he’d just ignored the pain and kept coming?”

Paige shook her head. “You think I should have just killed him?”

“If it was your life or his, yes!”

“But it wasn’t,” Paige pointed out. “I took him down, and he didn’t have to die.”

Christopher didn’t look happy about that.

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