“How’d it go?” Collins asked as Nathan dropped heavily into a chair across the desk from him. He had been waiting to hear about the interview, and was eager to hear good news about Eileen Hobbs, who had been a thorn in the side of his department for far too long.
“I reckon he’ll go for it,” Nathan said, stretching and yawning as though it was two in the morning instead of the middle of the afternoon, which it might as well have been given how long he had been on the go, and how much sleep he had managed to get in the past couple of days. “I’m giving him some time to think it over and discuss his situation with his solicitor, but when it comes down to it, he’ll take the deal. He’s scared of Hobbs, but he’s not so dumb that he doesn’t know he’s safer from her inside than on the outside, and
