“There are no guarantees, but if we follow through with this we’ll find out once and for all if Kendra’s the gunman’s primary target. Once we know that, our other questions will be answered, too.”“I don’t like this at all, but I don’t see a way around it either,” Preston said, then continued. “If we’re going to do this, you should use one of our department’s safe houses in Hartley. There are three, but the one I have in mind is unoccupied right now, and the houses on both sides of it are empty, too. That entire neighborhood has been hit with one foreclosure after another.”“You’re asking me to lie to my supervisor, Paul,” Kendra said slowly. “That kind of thing has serious consequences, and Evan’s bound to find out eventually.”“That’s true,” Paul said, “but can you think of anything else we can do at this point?”She said nothing for several long moments, and no one interrupted the silence even as the minutes ticked by. “No, unfortunately, I can’t,”
