Megan was seriously contemplating violence as she sat across from Paul. When she and Chloe arrived at the police station, she’d been surprised to find out that it wouldn’t only be her, Paul, and Chloe going out to dinner. A patrolman, Officer Jay Rollins, was joining them.
At first, she hadn’t thought much of it. He was a colleague of Paul’s, and she figured they were friends, or needed to talk shop, or whatever. That theory quickly went out the window once they were seated at their table. Paul made sure that she and Officer Rollins—Jay—were sitting beside each other. Jay even pulled out her chair for her when she went to sit down.
She was further convinced that the whole thing was a setup when Jay began asking her all about herself, and not in a casual, friendly way. He also, aside from
