CHAPTER 34
THE CONFRONTATION WITH Jay left me in a shitty mood for the rest of the day. Rather than biting people’s heads off in the office, I went out with one of my teams. Yes, I know I was technically the second-in-command of the entire division, but paperwork bored me, so I often hit the streets. Today, we were hunting for a bail jumper who’d been charged with robbery, and he’d already gotten away from us twice.
“Third time lucky, do you think?” Isaiah asked.
“Damn right.”
We found him in a bar downtown, drinking beer as he chatted up a skanky blonde. Evan shouted from inside before our jumper skidded out the front door and took off down the street. I’d worn sneakers, but it was amazing what desperation could do to a guy. He sprinted three blocks like an Olympian then turned left i
