Chapter Thirty-Four
A few hours later, Jia pored through data windows behind her temporary desk.
The captain of the 7-8 had found an empty office for the NSCPD detectives while they stayed in town. She hoped to derive some pattern from the background reports that might be useful, but Emma had already been working on it for days. Jia wasn’t convinced she could outperform the AI when it came to basic data analysis, even with human gut instinct guiding her.
“Do you think we’re wrong?” Jia asked.
Erik lay back in his chair, his feet on his desk. He’d been doing nothing for the last half-hour but staring out the window at the lake with a thoughtful look on his face. “Wrong about what?”
“This being about you. I don’t want to feed your already well-nourished ego, but I do believe this is som
