Chapter 38
I tried to focus on the case, but Frank’s secret meeting with Cookie and Hector was weighing heavily on my mind.
Alana must have sensed it was bothering me because she didn’t utter a word.
As we pulled into the Justice Center, I spotted Ted getting out of his truck. I pulled up next to him. After explaining my situation with the laptop, we headed to his lab. He asked us to give him fifteen minutes, so we waited in the lounge. Alana flipped through the pages of a magazine but I was restless.
“I’m going to see if Jake’s in his office.”
“Okay.”
I found him leaning back in his chair, reading over a case file. “Hey, are you busy?”
He looked up and smiled. “No. Come on in,” he said, closing the file. “What’s up?”
“I was just getting some help on something from Ted and thought
