Eighteen
Jo switched computer
screens then looked up at her partner. “Sorry…what did you say?”
“I said, am I to go and investigate this robbery on my own?”
“No”
“Well let’s go” the tall dark haired young man snapped.
Jo reached for her gun placing it into the holster as she hurried
outside after her partner who was now sitting behind the wheel, dark glasses
visible. “Can we go now?” he growled
“Sure”
He switched on the engine and sped off with siren blaring.
“So what’s she done this time?”
“Who?”
“Lori”
“Nothing!”
Jo drew in a deep breath as they pulled up outside the jewellery
store.
“Well not exactly nothing…I caught her”
They entered the building.
“Caught her? Doing what
exactly?”
He looked directly into her eyes.
“Fucking!”
“What?”
“I caught her fucking another man!”
“Ouch!”
“Okay what’s going on here?” he changed the subject.
“I caught this hoodlum with this in his pocket”
“I didn’t take nothing man”
Jo glanced from one to the other.
“Fine, let’s see what the camera has to say huh?” she said.
“Okay okay, I took it”
“Let’s go,” said
“So what you gonna do?”
“About what?”
Jo glanced at her partner.
“About your wife?”
“I ain’t thought that far ahead…I just turned and walked out”
Jo gasped, “What? Didn’t
you even ask what the hell was going on?”
“I think I could see what was going on
“So you just walked away?”
“Yeah”
“That was gallant of you”
“Stupid more like”
“Have you even spoken to her?”
“Nop”
“So where did you stay last night?”
“With a friend but I can’t stay there tonight…I think I
interrupted something”
“Oh don’t tell me…it weren’t Mark Read’s house you stayed at?”
“Yeah, actually it was”
“Figures…it’s a wonder it weren’t him in bed with your wife?”
“What makes you say that?”
“Well he’s usually in bed with everyone else’s”
“You make him sound like some kinda male slut”
“Yeah well if the cap fits”
“I must tell him that”
“Please don’t…it would only inflate his ego even more, If you wanna
crash at my house for a few nights you can”
“Thanks
They fell silent on reaching the precinct.
“Right pal let’s go,” he said firmly
As soon as they
entered Jo returned to her desk only to find the documentation on the
Ingebrigtsen case to have mysteriously vanished.
“What’s up?” she glanced at
“Nothing, nothing at all…you wanna interrogate or shall I?”
“You do it…I ain’t in the mood”
“
“Close the door”
He obeyed.
“What the hell is
“What? What are you talking
about?”
“I found these files on her desk”
“So…maybe she’s got some leads or something”
“Are you nuts…the Ingebrigtsen case is closed?"
“What?”
“Why is your partner working on a fucking case that was open and
shut?”
“How the hell would I know?”
“Well I suggest you find out quick smart! And when you do make sure she knows the score”
“What?”
King lent forward resting his arms on the desk.
“I want her off that fucking case do you here me!”
“Yeah I think the whole fucking precinct heard you King!”
“Good, now get out my fucking site and keep that fucking partner
of yours under control!”
“Okay!” yelled
Jo had just entered
the ladies room when
“She’s fine!” he growled.
“Jo?” the woman added, staring at Jo for conformation.
“Fine Rosie thanks”
The woman left.
“Okay, suppose you clue me in” said Jo.
“I’ve just got hollered at because seemingly you’re on a little
crusade!”
“What?”
“The Ingebrigtsen case!”
“Oh that, it’s just something I’m looking into or was, the files
seem to have gone astray”
“Yeah? Too open and shut if
you ask me”
“What?
“Yeah? Well now we’ll never
know”
“What are you talking about?”
“
“What?”
“It really wasn’t an open and shut case”
“Really?”
“Yeah and now that the files have disappeared we’ll never know”
“Maybe it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie?”
“What? Are you
serious? No
“What? He’s been framed or something?”
“Yeah exactly”
“What? Christ you are serious”
“Well why else would the case notes go missing?”
“Yeah maybe”
“Think about it…look I’m still gonna investigate this, you can
help me if you like but please don’t stand in my way okay?”
Kate looked at
Roxi then sighed “I wont be able to just now Jo…Chris got in some trouble and
got all visitation revoked for a month” she said down the receiver, she still
couldn’t believe there was one good cop in the world. “Kate you have got to get
word to him, you have got to tell him to cool it…I want him to remember
everything that happened on the lead up to that night and after”
“Okay I’ll get word to him somehow…Jo about the other thing?”
“Jessica?”
“Yeah?”
“Kate, you said as far as you knew Chris never signed any papers?”
“No never why?”
“Because someone did…someone signed adoption papers”
“So she’s been adopted?”
“Yeah I’m so sorry Kate”
“Damn…this will break Chris I know it will”
“Then don’t tell him okay”
“I have to tell him…he has a right to know”
“Please Kate just sit on the info for a while…until I get more
information”
“Okay”
“I gotta go my partners breathing down my neck”
“Okay thanks Jo”
“No problem, just get word to Chris okay?”
“Yeah”
“Good news?” Roxi inquired as soon as the call ended.
“Good and bad”
“I heard the bit about Jessie that’s bad”
“I got to get word to Chris”
“How…you heard what the warden said”
“Yeah I know…Wow I’ve got it, oh why didn’t I think of it sooner”
“What?”
“You!”
“Me?”
“You could go”
“I ain’t following you Kate, if you can’t see Chris, how the hell
am I suppose to?”
“No! Not Chris…he has a
friend Maz, you could pretend to be his sister or something”
“What? Kate you gotta be
kidding!”
“Oh please…Maz is okay, he’s a little sweetheart please Roxi
please”
“Oh okay but if I start getting harassed by this Marazzi guy”
“You wont I promise, I’ll go call him now and tell him to send you
a visitor slip thanks Roxi”
Roxi flashed her an unsure smile as she watched her skip off to
make the call.