Chapter 50

He’s working. He has to be.

Derek tried to believe what he was thinking. But something in their postures, in the way Brad looked at the man, said he was lying to himself.

Biting down on his anger and heartbreak, Derek went back to the job. When the informant he was waiting for appeared, Derek did what he was supposed to, got the information he needed, and he took off.

Twenty minutes later, he stormed into Samson’s office, made his report, then told him tersely, “Send me somewhere else. I’m getting too well known around here.” To an extent that was true, although no one had made him so far. But he knew it would happen one day if he wasn’t careful.

Samson said he’d take it under consideration.

It was two days before Derek heard from Samson, telling him to come to his office. When he arrived, Samson told him his request had been granted. He handed him the keys to what turned out to be a three-year-old SUV with Colorado plates.