All Chapters of BLOOD BUYS THE SILENCE : Chapter 11
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Cleaning House
The first shot punched through Nadia's kitchen window at 9 p.m., and Reyes hit the floor a half-second before the glass finished falling.Dorian was three blocks away, walking Detective Boyd through what little surveillance he'd gathered on Pier 14's guard rotation, when his phone lit up with a single word from Nadia. *Shooters.*He ran. His knee screamed with every stride, the kind of pain that used to stop him cold before eighteen months of learning to run through worse. Boyd kept pace beside him, badge already in hand, radio crackling low against her shoulder."Two blocks," she said. "I'm calling it in.""Calling it in gets Reyes arrested for the ledger evidence in his pocket. Calling it in gets Nadia's off-book work exposed. We handle this first."Boyd didn't argue. That told Dorian something, though he wasn't sure yet what.They came around the last corner into chaos — a car idling at the curb with its lights off, two men working their way toward the apartment's fire escape, a th
A Name Goes Silent
The safehouse was a converted storage unit three miles from anywhere Voss's people would think to look, and Boyd unlocked it with the particular caution of someone who'd used it before for reasons she didn't explain."Task force runs out of here when we don't trust our own precinct's walls," she said, flipping on a single work light that left most of the room in shadow. "Which lately is most of the time."No third favor to Odette tonight. Dorian had made that call walking here, watching Reyes wince with every step, deciding the debt he already carried was heavy enough without adding a stranger's protection to the pile.Reyes sank into a folding chair, one hand still pressed against his bandaged shoulder. "How many people know about this place?""Two. Me and someone I trust enough to still be breathing." Boyd pulled a laptop from a duffel bag and set it on a card table that had seen better decades. "Which is more than I can say for most of my department."Nadia spread her folder across