“We’re both familiar with blunt force trauma. You’re good. You can use the abbreviations. My associate here is a district attorney. He’s accustomed to murders, and I’m homicide.”
She smiled at him.
And Will saw it.
It wasn’t a‘I’m friendly’smile. It was more a‘you’re attractive, and I’d like to get to know you’smile—which didn’t shock him. Most cops dated people who worked in similar fields.
Ethan and Gene were both Feds.
He was an attorney, and Corbin was a cop.
As for her smile, he knew it was more because he’d used that same smile on Corbin that first day he saw him in his parents’ pub.
Oh, well, he had bad news for her.
That wasn’t working.
Someone’s gaydar was broken or in the shop. She could smile at him all she wanted. He wasn’t into the ladies.
Thank.
God.
“Good,” she said, focusing on the man. “Anyway, there was massive BFT, and the victim had so many broken bones that I lost count of the fractures. I ended up takingMANYX-rays, and all of them showed the trauma—as in his whole body. It was like he was being battered like a piñata at a child’s party.”
Corbin was curious.
“And any other trauma to him other than what you found on the X-rays?”
She contemplated it.
“He had ligature abrasions around his ankles and wrists. So, he was either having fun before, or not having fun,” she said, winking at him.
Will almost wanted to laugh.
From the way she tapped her nails on the desk, to the way she was leaning toward Corbin, giving a tit shot, he was amused.
Corbin wasn’t even noticing, and that said a lot about his man.
More than she was taking in.
Someone wasn’t reading the room.
She flipped screens.
“What finally did him in was the last hit to his head. His COD was a brain bleed due to a fractured skull. It’s weird that someone just beat him senselessly. When I passed that off to the detective, he asked about drugs.”
Corbin was curious, too.
“Did you find any in his system? Because if someone tried to tie me down, I’d fight like hell.”
She grinned at him.
“Do you find yourself in that predicament often, Detective?” she asked.
No.
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