Chapter Thirty-Five
Erik stretched and let out a loud yawn from behind his desk. “I don’t know how long I can take sitting around in a police station doing nothing.” The red-orange of the setting sun reflected off the lake in rippling waves of beauty. “They’ve got everybody and their cousin on this case, so it’s not like we’re bringing anything useful to the investigation.”
“You’re useful as bait,” Jia reminded him, her gaze focused on a data window filled with text. “And bait needs a good partner, so he doesn’t end up dead.”
“I keep thinking back over my Army career, trying to figure out if I have some connection to this woman on any level, but I can’t figure it out.”
Emma chimed in with, “I’ve been trying to perform analysis as well, as much as I can with publicly accessible records,
