Chapter Nine
He dumped his keys on his desk without a word after walking back into the station, trying to wrap his head around a clusterfuck that seemed to be imploding around him.
“I take it that didn’t go well,” Carmen said as she strode in.
He looked past her to the two new cops he hadn’t hired. “You want to say you warned me?”
She pulled her arms over her chest, and his gaze flicked to the deputy badge tucked into her jeans. A job she’d earned was being yanked from her. “So what am I supposed to do with those two? I have rounds.”
He pulled in one breath and then another, his hands on his hips, then shrugged out of his jean jacket and tossed it over the back of his chair. He didn’t know why, but he sat and reached for his keys, selecting the one for the bottom drawer.
“Tell me abo
