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“Congratulations.”
“Thank you, sir.” Stone shifted uncomfortably in the chair he had taken in his superior’s office.
“Is there anything you need, to close out the investigation?” Collins asked, pleased by his subordinate’s success that morning, though he wasn’t quite so pleased that the success had come at the cost of a detective in the hospital, and another who should be. Because of the morning’s events, his detective’s division was short on officers, which had required him to talk to his superior to arrange for cover to fill the vacancies.
“I don’t think so,” Stone said, gritting his teeth against the pain the movement caused as he reached for the mug of coffee on the desk in front of him. “We have the car, which is in the hands of the lab boys; it’s probably going to take them a
