Cavanaugh on Duty

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people. Everything else “expired,” like a container of milk going sour, or a warranty on a product.
    “Or a body someone had stashed in the unit while they tried to figure out how to make it disappear without calling attention to themselves,” she concluded for her boss.
    Morrow nodded, his unruly, longer-than-regulation hair falling into his squinty, deep-set brown eyes. “Exactly.”
    “Mind if I hope it’s fruit until I find out otherwise?” she asked.
    The weather was turning unseasonably warmer. That meant that a body hidden in a storage unit was bound to decompose more quickly than usual. This was not an assignment she was looking forward to.
    “It’s a free country,” the lieutenant replied magnanimously.
    Kari glanced at the address before tucking it into her pocket. The storage facility wasn’t located far from the precinct, she noted.
    Securing her weapon, she was just about to leave the office when she saw the look of surprise that fleetingly passed over the lieutenant’s craggy face. Since the man was facing the outer door that led to the hallway, she turned around to see what had caught his attention.
    No wonder he looked surprised, she caught herself thinking. Esteban Fernandez created quite an imposing impression at first sight.
    And even second and third, she mused.
    To be honest, at first glance he didn’t even look like the man she’d spoken with last night. That man had been scruffy and raw. This one fell under the category of “tall, dark and handsome.” But there was still a dangerous edge to him despite his clean-shaven face. An enticing, dangerous edge.
    But then, last night he was still embracing his other persona, the undercover cop he’d been—a role he’d played for the past three years, if the rumors were correct. And, at this point, that was all she really had to go on. Rumors. Law enforcement detectives involved in the undercover world did not exactly have readily accessible data that the regular force could easily refer to. Whatever they did was not supposed to ever see the light of day or be acknowledged—good or bad.
    She made a mental note to take another crack at the Cavanaugh pipeline. So many of the Cavanaughs were involved with the various departments at the precinct, it only stood to reason that someone had to know something viable, something she could use when dealing with the man she assumed was going to be her new partner.
    However long that association lasted, she did not want to be in the dark or at a disadvantage when it came to dealing with this man. At the very least, she wanted to know exactly who she was trusting to have her back.
    “Fernandez?” Morrow inquired, obviously as stunned by his transformation as she briefly had been.
    Esteban glanced over toward the lieutenant just as he reached his desk—since the desk was so blatantly empty, except for the computer and the coffee container, he’d made a logical deduction that it was going to be his.
    For as long as he decided to remain here, he silently added as a footnote to placate himself.
    “Yeah?” he asked the lieutenant.
    Morrow looked far from pleased with this latest addition to his department. “It’s customary to report to your commanding officer when you first join a department,” he said, his gravelly voice rife with displeasure.
    “Sorry, sir, I just now walked in,” Esteban pointed out needlessly. Right before he’d visited Miguel in prison, he’d made his decision to continue his association with the police department until he could figure out how to get back into undercover work. He’d gotten caught in morning rush-hour traffic on the drive back from the penitentiary, which accounted for his less than timely appearance.
    His eyes met Kari’s and he gave her what amounted to the smallest, most imperceptible of nods, acknowledging her presence.
    It was a start, she thought.
    Kari heard Morrow grumble almost inaudibly under his breath. All she caught was something that made a

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