Chapter 54Sheppard sat in his rental car outside the FBI’s Los Angeles office on Wilshire Boulevard. He was initially appreciative of how quickly Sophie had managed to get him a flight, but he was now starting to regret the late flight that arrived at LAX at two in the morning. He was now stuck waiting for the office to open at eight.
Sheppard greatly preferred the look of the LA office to the one in Chicago. Where the Chicago office had an opulent extravagance, the Los Angeles office was a stark contrast. This building looked like a simple box with another box in the middle. It could easily be mistaken for a residential apartment building from the seventies. Sheppard liked the simplistic idea of function over form.
Sheppard had been waiting for hours already, and he didn’t think it woul
