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36. Checkmate
"Come and sit down! You are making me nervous!" Stacey ordered Anders as she watched him pace up and down the aisle.
They were waiting for Detective Drake to arrive and help restore the community back to normalcy.
Based on the information that Anders had supplied to Drake, the FBI was brought into the investigation. Drake had managed to quickly escalate the situation to the higher ups within the police force because of his connection to Finn and the corruption that Anders had presented. .
As a result, Agent Mia Templeton would be traveling with Drake on the same flight and they would pull rank over Caleb.
Not only would they pull rank, they would send him back to the Madison office, where he would face an internal investigation pertaining to his behaviour.
Fortunately, Caleb wasn't aware of the change in organizational structure.
Not yet!
Anders desperately wanted to k
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