CHAPTER TWENTY
Avery had to remind herself several times over the course of the afternoon that the case was, as of right now, out of her hands. Jimmy Daughtry’s alibis had indeed panned out, leaving them with zero leads once again. As it stood, the only hope they had was that Forensics could turn up some new piece of evidence.
She hated feeling that she was sitting on the sidelines, but she also knew that it was the perfect opportunity to put her priorities in order once again. She was eventually going to have to learn that it was okay to have a life outside of work—and now with things going smoothly with Rose and her relationship with Ramirez at an almost too-good-to-be-true level, it seemed like a good time.
After leaving the A1 at seven that evening, she and Ramirez swung by his plac
