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Only, he’d fucked up.
This mess came to them, and they weren’t green like Corbin.
“Okay, and the day you went intoBull’s, did you check-in with the commissioner? Did you call your boss? What did you do?”
Corbin thought back.
“Yeah, I filed a report, and dropped it at his office. I stopped there before I went home to change into undercover clothing.”
Ethan kept pushing as Gene got closer to the condos.
They had to make sure.
There would be one shot at this.
“And you updated the commissioner as to what your plan was for the night?”
Corbin hadn’t.
“No, he was in a meeting. I left my report with Landry, and told him to tell the commissioner I was doing my undercover hit on the bar that night. I told him that I’d update him the next day.”
Gene glanced over.
Well, fuck.
Landry was definitely behind this. He was getting information and using it to protect his money-making scheme.
“And the other times you updated the commissioner, was it to him or Landry?” Blackhawk asked.
“It was to the commissioner, but when I send my reports in, they must go to his aid, because he normally emails back that he got them.”
Gene looked over.
“Okay, Corby. We’ll check-in soon.”
No, he needed to know.
“Who is it?” Corbin asked. “Please just tell me,” he said. “I need to know. It’s haunting me. Was I that bad of a cop that they spotted me?”
Unfortunately, no.
Ethan was honest.
“You closed big cases, and you didn’t drop the ball. The commissioner didn’t want us handling this. You said that he wanted it in-house, so it was likely never coming to us.”
That didn’t answer his question, now did it?
“Who betrayed me?”
Ethan shared it.
“The commissioner’s aid, Landry Mahoney.”
There was silence.
Ethan kept talking.
“He probably knew you’d be a good person to work this because you follow rules. You report in, and you’re easy to handle. Add that to the fact the commissioner hates dealing with the FBI…”
