CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR
Three days later, Avery found herself sitting in Connelly’s office. It was Connelly’s first day back, having mostly recovered from the spider bite. It had been a weaker genus of funnel web spider and though its venom was still deadly, it had been stalled by several injections at the hospital. Connelly still wore a small bandage over the area where he had been bitten but other than that, he was basically back to his old self.
And that included a brash and transparent communication approach. He looked over his desk at Avery and sighed. It was just the two of them and the door was closed. It felt both intimate and suffocating all at once.
“I want you back,” he said. “I know you’ve been through hell and this Barry Kechner case was only a favor you did for the A1 but…I wa
