Page 64 of Sticks and Stones
Hell?
“Holy shit! Is he okay?” he asked, getting sick over that. Corbin was a good guy, and no one deserved to be assaulted like that.
NO.
ONE.
Gene sighed.
He didn’t have an answer to that because he knew what Corbin had faced would be the long road back.
“Somehow, he managed to pull himself out of the dumpster, and he crawled naked through the snow to the mouth of the alley. A bypassing car stopped and called an ambulance. He has a broken arm, some broken ribs, and a dislocated shoulder. Like I said, he was assaulted. In this case, sexually.”
That sickened Greyson, and now, he understood why the men were taking this case.
In fact, if they’d let him, he wanted in too. Corbin was a friend, and that he was assaulted horrified him as a Fed, cop, and man.
This was a surefire way to get Gene and Ethan to cancel their vacation.
This.
Right.
Here.
“So you want me to make sure you guys can work his assault case?” he asked, reading the room.
Oh, well, that would be too easy.
He needed the whole shebang, and that was what was going to be the difficult part. Not only did he want that, but he also wanted the murders tied to it, simply because it would make it a whole hell of a lot easier to start at the beginning where Corbin had been.
It appeared they were going to retrace his steps.
“I also need you to pull jurisdiction on the case he was working that led to him being assaulted. Corbin was chasing traffickers, and he went undercover when three victims were found. They were killed and their remains dumped.”
Oh, boy.
That was asking a lot. The cops were going to be prickly about the assault on Corbin, but sideswiping them and taking the homicides too...
“Gene, do you know the dance it’s going to take to pull a trafficking case from their Vice unit? It would have to go to ours. You’re not Vice.”
He stopped him.
“I was Vice. In fact, that’s where I started my career with the FBI. I’ve gone undercover for countless cases, and I worked the streets. On top of that, yes, we work homicides now, but we don’t have official duties. We’re here to clean up, and right now,Phillyhas a trafficking problem. Someone is taking young men and selling them to people.”
Oh, he wasn’t doubting that he had a valid point. He was doubting the boss man would step in and stop him. Gabe was a wildcard on a good day.
On a bad day, he was a person’s nightmare.
Greyson was trying to figure out a way to make this happen.
Why?
There was no way in hell that this man was backing down after Corbin had been sexually assaulted. He’d do it while saying he was on vacation as he broke the rules.
Which would cause chaos.
And more paperwork.
