Chapter 23
Hayden
“This all you have for me?”
I glanced incredulously at the file spread open before me and then up at Detective Gutierrez, who sat on the other side of his desk, looking unimpressed by all the material my private investigator had assembled on Finley.
Was he f*****g serious? What the hell more did he want? I’d done all the investigative work for him.
“It’s proof that he faked his own death!” I answered as if that should be enough. “What else do you need?”
Gutierrez shrugged. “Pseudocide isn’t a crime. The guy’s an adult; he can check himself off the grid if he wants to.”
I sniffed. “So you don’t think there’s any misconduct afoot here?”
“Oh, I’m sure there’s been plenty of misconduct happening all over this, Mr. Carmichael. It’s as suspicious as hell. I figure it wa
