CHAPTER NINETEEN
It didn’t take long for Ryan to spill the beans.
He tried to come at it sideways by asking her a question first. He waited until they were back at his desk before diving in, after she’d finished setting up a coffee get-together for that afternoon with Andi Robinson.
“So you weren’t really in any condition to give me a coherent answer yesterday, but I was hoping you could now. Care to tell me how you ended up in an abandoned apartment building, fighting off a vagrant with a steak knife in a bathroom with a years-old dead body?”
Jessie didn’t see any reason not to be forthcoming. She had already told him about Crutchfield and his connection to her father. It didn’t seem unreasonable to tell him about her request for information and the favor he wanted in return.
So she
