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The wind whips our hair into our faces—his as well as mine, because Hawks

hasn’t had it cut in a while. In fact, his entire person looks ill-groomed. All

these after-hours stakeouts are taking their toll on him. He’s unshaven, eyes

bloodshot.

“Doesn’t it bother you?” he demands, “Sleeping with the man who killed

your roommate?”

I round on him, equally as indignant.

“I told you who killed Erin,” I hiss. “I have to see him at every fucking party

I attend. Shaw is the Beast, not Cole. Why don’t you do your fucking job and

arrest him?”

Hawks lets out a bitter laugh.

“He’s really got you fooled, doesn’t he?”

“Cole isn’t trying to fool me, and I’m not trying to fool him. We’ve seen each

other’s scars. You think you’re a good man? I bet there’s something you’re

ashamed of. Something you’ve never told anyone. Cole’s told it all to me.

ALL of it. I’m not saying he’s a saint. But he is honest.”

“An honest killer?” Hawks sneers.

“You’ve never shot anyone?” I sneer right back at him.

“I’m a cop. It’s my job to catch criminals.”

“Yeah? I bet you only shot them when you had to, right? I bet every time you

pulled your gun out, you absolutely had to do it, there was no other way. No

part of you made a judgment on that person. No part of you thought they

deserved to die.”

Hawks stares at me through the smudged lenses of his glasses.

My time with Cole has taught me to look for signals: the motions on the face

that the mind can’t control.

For Hawks, it’s a twitch of his right eyelid, blinking over his iris like a

camera shutter.

He doesn’t even know he’s doing it.

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