It was when he stood up, shook his scrub-covered ass, and did a little dance as she stared at him.
Yep.
He’d finally lost his damn mind.
It was a long time coming, but this was the proof.
Clearly.
“Uh, do you need a moment, Christopher?” she asked, knowing exactly what he was excited about. “Because we can give you one.”
He was to the point.
“I need a few moments. I’m about to celebrate that I’ve met an ME that understands the process. He just cockblocked you from COD. That’s a beautiful thing in my world. Zane would never. He would have stared at the victim, pointed at the stab wounds to the heart, and told you he bled out.”
She smiled.
As soon as he saw that, Chris gasped.
“Oh, my God! You just Uno reversed the shit out of me, and tricked me!”
She snorted.
Yeah, she did.
Sometimes, he forgot what games she played all day long, and how she played games at night with the kids, too. She was an all-around game player.
“Did I?” she asked. “So, COD is likely bleeding out. Gotcha, Doc.”
He sighed.
“Damn it. She got me again.”
Yeah, well, it was a gift.
It took twenty-plus years to get to this point, and she was proud of that journey. Elizabeth would be lying if she pretended that she didn’t sit around and think up ways to trick him into compliance.
Sue her.
“Uh-huh, maybe we can continue?”
The man beside Chris looked confused, and that was the other amusing part for her. Chris was way too giddy for her own good.
Doctor Redmond continued.
“We found him just like this, and he was stabbed in the chest. The blood is all around him, and not disturbed.”
Corbin went there, since it was clear that the ME wasn’t going to add anything else to that statement.
“So he dropped, and no one moved him. That’s where he died, or there would be droplets on the ground, leaving a trail.”
Alexi shrugged.
“I mean, I give you the facts, and you make that call. I’m not here to solve it. I’m here to share what I know to be true. It looks to be one stab to the chest, and the rest will be after we open him up—or the doctor opens him up.”
Chris just smiled.
Uh-oh.
