Too close to emotions that had absolutely no place in this kind of investigation. Not that she would allow them to cloud her judgment or stand in the way of her doing the right thing. She had too much integrity for that.But Patrick did make it extremely difficult to concentrate, difficult to think of him as possibly being guilty of the allegations anonymously brought against him.Just after she’d finished her shift, she’d been summoned to meet with her superior over another tepid cup of coffee at yet another out-of-the-way diner. She waited only long enough for the waitress to withdraw before expressing her doubts about the necessity of continuing the charade.Maggi thought of the way Cavanaugh had looked when she’d suggested his late partner had been on the take. “The man can be colder than last week’s toast, but he’s a good cop,” she insisted.Halliday poured enough cream into his coffee to turn it a pale shade of tan. “Maybe that’s what he wants you to think.”She didn’t like the idea that Halliday thought she could be manipulated.
