CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
Jake Crivaro sat gazing at his young partner. He knew he was repeating himself when he asked her again …
“What are we going to do?”
He had no answer to the question, and apparently Riley didn’t either.
Instead of replying, she just stared at him with a stricken expression. Jake couldn’t help but turn away. The words he’d just said to her had been remarkably stupid.
“I was wrong, and you were right. Does that make you happy?”
Now he could feel his whole body cringe.
That really was out of line, he thought.
Worse than out of line.
What the hell is wrong with me?
But the truth was, Jake knew perfectly well what was wrong.
He was feeling discouraged. No, more than discouraged.
He was feeling positively burnt out.
And of course, he’d been feeling that for some
