Twenty-Five
“FIVE MINUTES!” DAN shouts, slamming his large fist down on Helen’s desk. “Five minutes with the cameras turned off, and I’ll get the truth out of him!”
“Dan,” Helen says, “calm down.”
“Calm down!” Dan exclaims. “This guy’s a predator. He stalked her. He has photographs of girls who look like her. His stepsister, for crying out loud.” The ex-Marine paces up and down like an angry lion. “He’s been lying the entire time, dammit.”
“I know that, Dan,” she says. “I’ve seen the same records you have. He saw her at least twice a week through Freshy Fresh, and called and texted her every day multiple times. She ignored many of them. She told him to leave her alone in a couple of them.”
Dan takes a deep breath. “OK. How do you want to handle this?”
“Both of us question him,” Helen
