CHAPTER TWELVE
Because the case was currently in a state of file-checking and waiting on coroner results, Mackenzie decided to head back to DC. There, she’d stop to visit Barry Burke at the medical examiner’s office to see if things were any clearer in regards to the body of Kenny Skinner. The trip was only seventy minutes or so; if anything happened to come up in Kingsville while she was gone, she could be back there within an hour.
She headed out of Kingsville with all of this in mind. In the back of her head, she was also aware that she wanted to go back in order to check in with Ellington. Speaking to him on the phone was one thing, but having been lovers for several months and work partners even longer than that, there was much more she could gather from a face-to-face talk.
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