He had no way of knowing that he was really, really wrong.
TEN
HARMONY
“Didyou hear about what’s going down at Precinct Four?”
Harmony paused in the line at breakfast, hearing the conversation going on at the table by the door. She had a few pieces of bacon in the grip of her tongs.
“What’s going on now?” Rock’s rumbling voice was easy to identify anywhere.
Halo laughed at his question. “It’s that guy, you know the shirtless one?”
Startled, the bacon dropped onto her plate.
“Hey,” Vega nudged her with his shoulder. “You’re holding up the line.”
Harmony nodded and moved onto the next tray, startling when Vega snatched the tongs from her hand.
She picked up the serving spoon and scooped up two over medium eggs and put them on her plate on the empty space between her bacon and her potatoes. She moved on then and instead of pretending she wasn’t listening in, she moved to the table where Rock and Halo were sitting.
“Yeah, yeah. St. Cyr. He’s in trouble.”
Harmony’s plate rattled on the table and heads turned in her direction.
“Sorry,” she mumbled under her breath.
Halo frowned at her, confused.
But Rock? He looked right at her. “No worries, Harmony. We’re all family here.”
She blew out a breath and saw Vega walking past her, his forehead creased with a frown. She’d taken a seat at a table where there wasn’t a seat for him.
She felt bad about it, but she needed to hear what was going on.
She hadn’t seen Crois in a few days. His shifts were long. Not as long as her own, but long enough that it made talking on a regular basis a pain in the backside.
“Thanks, Rock.”
He gestured at Halo. “What were you saying?”
Halo picked up a piece of bread and started to butter it. “Well, from what I hear, he arrested a drunk driver a few days ago and the arrest record… disappeared.”
Harmony had to grip her fork tightly, so it didn’t drop out of her hand. “Dis-disappeared?”
She felt her mouth go dry. Crois wouldn’t have done something like misplace an arrest report? Was there even a way to do that?
Didn’t Pilar fill out the paperwork?
Her mind was reeling.
Halo looked at her and nodded. “The woman he arrested?”
Harmony’s hand tightened around her fork. The woman had been arrested by both partners, not just Crois.
“Apparently, she’s the family of someone high up at CCPD.”
She felt her jaw tightening. “So, someonemadethe report disappear, is what you’re saying.”
