“No hesitation acting now,huh?”
Dr.Moorehead stared her down.
“You going to leave on your own, Dr.Reeves? Or am I going to have to call security for you, too?”
Ivy ground her teeth.
“No, I’ll leave. But first, I want my goddamn phone back.”?
?Chapter 45
Vaughn was surprisedto find Delaney still on the other side of the glass in the adjacent room.
“What are you doing here? Didn’t you hear where Perry parked his car? The gas station?”
Vaughn expected Darnell to say something too, something more aggressive.
He didn’t.
“I heard—I told Horowitz and some of the other guys to check it out.”
And I toldyouto do it.
As much as he wanted to, Vaughn couldn’t admonish him. If Delaney wanted to, he could go to Captain Daniels, tell him what Darnell had done. And that’d be it for Darnell.
This is all I got, man.
It was no secret that with Darnell coming in hungover, probably still drunk, and Vaughn always having to cover for him, most people thought the PPD would be better off with him gone.
They felt for him, sure, for what happened to his family, but everyone had their limits.
“Fine. You’re here. You watched. What did you think?”
“I think he’s a lying piece of shit.”
Predictable. If Joshua Perry was their man and Delaney brought him in, he’d get that promotion to detective he was vying for.
Even if Darnell kept his post.
“I don’t,” Vaughn countered.
“You don’t think he’s lying?” Delaney sounded shocked.
“No,” Vaughn said. “I don’t.”
“C’mon—this is all an act. He did it. He killed all those people.”
“Darnell?”
“I don’t know.”
Great, thanks for your help. Got another one of those hunches, Darnell?
“Did you look into Josh’s background? Education?”
“Yeah—GED. No college. Worked in construction last year.”
“I don’t think someone with no college education set up the 100 prisoners problem and the prisoner’s dilemma,” Vaughn said, shaking his head. “I mean, the construction worker thing would come into play building those rooms, but Darnell said that pretty much anybody can do that.”
