“Pennfield will kill me!”
Resting both elbows on the table"s surface, Hutchinson grabbed clumps of his own hair. “I can"t help you!” he said, his voice muffled by his own arms. “Pennfield wouldn"t tell me something if he thought it might harm him.”
A knock at the door came before Harry could reply, and a good thing too. He had been on the verge of screaming at the other man. An officer of the law took an oath to protect the innocent. Only the worst kind of scum would betray that oath for cash, debts or no debts. Perhaps that was why Lenai was so volatile. The young woman had an oath of her own to keep.
When he stepped out into the hallway, he found Aamani Patel leaning against the wall with arms folded, scowling down at herself. “You need to ease off,” she said. “Look at that man. He"s
