Willis Moore is a detective with the Richmond City police department. A case he was involved with went down badly and he was given a month's sabbatical to pull himself together after the death of his informant, a young man named Teabag, with whom Will had let himself become sexually involved.<br><br>Back on the force now, Will finds himself drawn to another street punk, a hustler named Corey, who seeks police assistance to protect his "boys" from a violent attacker. He and Corey work well together, and Will dares to hope their relationship might be heading toward something more. But he still can't seem to shake the feeling he will eventually fail to protect the hustler ... the same way he failed to save Tea.

Tricked Out

He trudged into her office and winced when she slammed the door shut behind him. The swig he took of his Starbucks’ Caramel Macchiato tasted like ash in his mouth. What the hell had he done thistime?


Sorensen’s heels clipped on the tile floor as she circled him. “Sit,” she said.


Will obeyed, dropping into one of two chairs in front of her desk. She sank into the executive leather chair behind the desk, opposite him, and snatched up a file from the teetering pile on her inbox. He recognized Janine’s handwriting on the folder’s tab—Thomason, Corey, followed by Tuesday’s date.


Before Will could try to explain, Sorensen waved the file at him. “Who assigned you to this case?”


“Everyone else was at lunch,” Will explained. “I just took the report.”


Sorensen flipped open the folder to frown at the paper inside. “You’re listed as the officer in charge. Who authorized this?”


“No one else was here,” Will tried again.


Chapter 19