So they’d heard.
Repeatedly.
“Oh!” the captain said. “Three minutes ago, I got a call from the FBI,” he admitted. “They asked what case Aaron Figueroa was working before he died.”
And that’s when it hit him.
Dead.
Cop.
Ding-ding-ding.
That made Corbin lift a brow. As quickly as he could, he began putting the pieces together in his mind. He’d missed it at first, but now, he was curious.
For him, it all led to one thing.
“So, you guys lost a cop too?” he asked, playing catch-up. Clearly, Ethan and Gene had gone down a rabbit hole, and hadn’t had time to clue him in. “I know you said it, but it just hit me that two officers of the law died.”
Captain Marrero nodded.
“Didn’t your agent tell you?” he asked.
Corbin knew why they didn’t.
“We divided and conquered this morning, and I didn’t check in with them yet,” he said. “I’m doing interviews with my partner here,” he said, covering their bases.
Will watched his boyfriend work, and it was fascinating to see this from his perspective. By the time he got involved, the police had already had a case built, and were ready to arrest.
Corbin was curious.
“Who was the agent who called?” he asked. “Was it Blackhawk or Cantrell?”
The man had scribbled it down, so he rustled through some papers to find it.
“Greyson something or other. I didn’t catch his last name. I was surprised that the FBI was asking questions regarding the case they were told to hand back over to us by a judge.”
Corbin didn’t like this.
Oh, and for a couple of reasons. If it smelled like shit, it wasn’t a rose garden.
That was for damn sure.
“So Jarod Shand, an FBI agent, died investigating the killing of a police officer, and was the officer working on a case?” he asked.
The man nodded.
“Yes, he was working on the death of a businessman,” he stated.
Corbin took a stab at it.
“Jaden Mendin?” he asked, thinking on the fly as he tried to piece this all together. It was crystal clear that his partners in this were doing the same thing.
Oh, and this really stunk.
The man nodded.
“Yes, that was the case that Aaron was working before his death. Do you know anything about it?”
