Time to Murder and Create by Block Lawrence

Author:Block, Lawrence. [Block, Lawrence.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-10-27T02:44:51+00:00

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Chapter 12

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If Shari hadn’t known my name, I might have left.

Perhaps not; cop instincts die hard if they die at all, and I had spent too many years despising those re-luctant witnesses who slipped off into the shadows to feel comfortable playing the role myself. Nor would it have sat well to duck out on a girl in her condition.

But the impulse was surely present. I looked at Henry Prager, his body slumped over his desk, his features contorted in death, and I knew that I was looking at a man I had killed. His finger had pulled the trigger, but I’d put the gun in his hand by playing my game a little too well.

I had not asked to have his life intertwined with mine, nor had I sought to be a factor in his death.

Now his corpse confronted me; one hand was stretched across the desk, as if pointing at me.

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