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Jack and Wendy walked silently back to the incident room, with the only spoken words being Wendy’s thanks to Jack for defending her. He nodded his acceptance, then went into his office and shut the door behind him.
He didn’t know which way to turn. He had plenty of people to make up to, and a number of decisions to be made. One of them was simple enough, though.
He took his phone out of his pocket and called Chrissie. He glanced at his watch, noting that she’d be at work, but hoping she might be on her own in the office and able to take his call. After thirty seconds or so, his call went through to voicemail.
‘Hi Chrissie. It’s me,’ he said. ‘Look, I just wanted to ring you to apologise for not getting back to you the other day. Some stuff’s kicked off at work and at… Well, at work.
