Chapter 38

Kira set her jaw. No one messes with my home. If Monica thinks she can

get away with this, she’s in for a rude reality check. ONLY ONE SUSPECT to go, and Kaen had more questions than answers.

In preparation for his final interview, Kaen had looked into the detailed

personnel files for all three suspects. He hoped to corroborate their claims

about when they were first approached by their mystery contacts, to see if

there were any commonalities. Both the lieutenant and the captain had indeed

been on leave three years prior, on the dates they claimed in their written

statements. The lieutenant had passed through the station that supported

Guard transit, when extra capacity was needed, and the captain had been

passing through a station that handled tens of thousands of passengers.

The two incidents were within a day of each other. Kaen remembered

that timeframe because the unit he was attached to had just completed a