He was curious.
“Is there anything I need to know about the case?” he asked. “Since you’re supposed to be checking in with me, and I haven’t heard anything new that I didn’t already know?”
She smiled.
“Eyeballs, skulls, massive trauma, and multiple victims. That’s all I know so far,” she admitted, lying her ass off. “When I know, you’ll know.”
That was a lie, too.
They knew plenty.
And he’d not hear jack shit from her. From here on out, she was running this her way.
At the door, she stopped.
“Oh, and thanks for the coffee,” she said. “It’s pretty good. I appreciate it.”
Then, they walked out.
Now, she had to get to the morgue, release all the CSIs, and commandeer it. Chris was going to have to get Alexi to keep the whole‘embalmed’thing out of any reports that went to the captain, for now.
It had been easier to just not go there than to dance around it. If he didn’t ask, she wasn’t really culpable, now was she?
Outside the door, they saw the two detectives at their desks, and they had gotten comfy.
That told her one thing.
They expected her to dump them.
Yeah, she didn’t roll that way.
They’d yet to give her a reason to dump them. As she approached, she had news for them.
“Uh, Detectives, when you’re working with me, you don’t sit on the job unless I’m getting cozy at a desk. Get your badges, and your guns. We have a case to work,” she said.
They both looked surprised, but they did as she said.
As they began walking out, ahead of the detectives, Ethan was to the point.
“I hope you have room for a few more balls in the air. You’re about to be balancing them. Oh, and I don’t want to hear jack shit to Chris about him swiping an ME. You plan on stealing two detectives. Felonious job napping.”
She snorted.
And said nothing.
Her mind wasn’t made up either way yet. While she knew Tora wanted to be a Fed, by her own volition, it took a lot. If shewas going to give them a shot, she needed to watch them more, and see if they could hack it.
Her team was special.
It was do or die.
Mostly because they could die at any time. Not everyone was cut out to chase crazies.
That was the bottom line.
“We’ll see,” she admitted.
Outside, they headed toward the morgue, and that’s when the two detectives caught up.
