William glanced down at the table in his conference room and then up at the men sitting opposite him. For cops, they appeared rather blasé. Clearly, it had been awhile since either of them had spent any time on the beat. The smaller of the two studied William’s face. He was a small man, who upright, couldn’t have been over five and a half feet tall. His red hair and deep brown eyes lent him an angry, hungry expression, and William guessed he’d be the first to speak. The older and larger of the two was hunched over gazing at his phone. He wore an expression on his face of boredom. It was clear he cared little about the reason they were there. William studied the men and did his best to focus on what was being said, but it took concentrated effort to do so. The harder he tried to focus, the

