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“Goddammit!” Mitchell swore. “I can’t believe I’ve got to let him go, again!”
“He’s got an alibi,” Melissa said. “He couldn’t have been the one who kidnapped Emily.”
“Only if it was Emily we heard being attacked on the phone,” Mitchell said as he struggled to control his anger. “If it wasn’t her, then we don’t know when she was attacked, and Wild’s alibi goes out the window. I still say it’s him. He was seen kissing her, for god’s sake.”
“Kissing isn’t attacking,” Melissa pointed out. She couldn’t quite believe she was defending Wild, especially after he had admitted kissing Emily – how he could have done such a thing when he was more than twice her age, she didn’t know – but she believed in doing her job right and didn’t like the thought of Mitchell remaining so focused on making h
