She gave an exasperated breath. "Well, at least he'll get a good eight hours of sleep and a healthy breakfast before anyone starts looking."
The trooper looked at Delaney with a jaundiced eye. "You know, you may not be under arrest, but you still do have the right to remain silent. How about exercising that right for me?"
Delaney and I looked at each other and broke out laughing.
Even as we laughed, I felt the ice water running though me. I couldn't help thinking that if we hadn't been too lazy to remove the boiler plate in the door, Delaney would have been dead.
The trooper's radio pinged, and he had a quiet, terse conversation with the other end before turning towards us. "Hope you didn't have any plans today."
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