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“Yes, ma’am.”

I clenched my teeth and turned on my heel, hating how much I liked this side of him.

Quiet. Respectful. Intelligent. Non-combative yet assertive. Good at everything I wasn’t.

Soren was exactly the kind of partner I needed and if Lucy decided she didn’t want to work in the field anymore, he would be perfect for me.

Maybe I should stop working in the field too. That would probably be for the best.

It was only a matter of time before everything blew up in my face anyway and pretending like it wasn’t going to happen was only going to make me look stupid. It was time I really thought about what I was going to do and how that was going to affect everything.

Eventually, my role as Francesca Lopez was going to conflict with my role as Frankie James, and I was going to have to choose.

No matter how much I didn’t want to admit it, my life as Frankie James was pretty much over. I needed to accept that and be who I was always supposed to be.

Unfortunately, even I didn’t know who Francesca Lopez was anymore.

CHAPTER 23

Frankie

The womanwho discovered the disembodied head this morning was staring down at the ground, hardly blinking. She had the same brown hair as all three victims too which worried me.

I grabbed one of the water bottles they’d brought for the cops and headed over.

She still seemed to be in shock, but I’ve done this enough times to know how to handle people in this state.

Everyone was different, but there were only so many variations.

Depending on the way she reacted to me, I’d know what steps I needed to take to bring her out of that shock and trust me enough to give me information and opportunities she might not have given the police.

I took a knee in front of her and looked up into her face, instantly getting her attention. “How are you doing?”

The woman didn’t respond, but I hadn’t expected her to.

I handed her the bottle of water and gave her a small smile. “I know you’ve been here a long time and you’ve answered thesame questions over and over, but I’m the last person you need to speak with. I’ll make it quick and painless, I promise.”

She hesitated before taking the water bottle from me, staring at it like she didn’t quite understand what was happening.

Rummaging around in my pockets, I pulled out the various items and selected the small, round candy I always carried around for these types of situations. “Here, you have to be hungry, but this is all I have. Sorry about that.”

She took the hard, pink candy and stared at the shiny wrapper around it before looking at me like I was an alien species. “Thank you.”

“No problem.” I flashed her my best smile and rested my forearm on my knee.

I didn’t want to make her look up at me and intimidate her.

She was a beta per the notes from the previous officers and pretty shy, or maybe she was just out of it. I couldn’t be sure yet, but I was an alpha and looming over a beta or an omega never went over well unless Iwantedthem to be afraid of me.

“I’m not going to ask you all the same questions they asked you,” I assured her. “I mostly wanted to make sure you’re doing okay and apologize for making you wait so long.”

“It’s fine,” she whispered as she rolled the candy between her fingers.

Pushing to my feet, I sat beside her on the bench and leaned forward, resting my elbows on my knees to look smaller. “Are you missing work because of all this?”

She nodded and I took my phone out to text Garcia. “Okay, I’ll get them to write an official note for you to send to your boss so it doesn’t cause any problems. You should definitely take the rest of the day off. I have a few people you can call if you need to talk to someone about what happened. This isn’t exactly an easy thing to deal with.”

Her gaze slid to my phone before she wrapped the blanket around her tighter.

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