For what reason? Why?” The questions came out of my mouth faster than I could think. “You keep quiet and sit in the corner,” Mike said. “My story to the commissioner, should he ask, is that you were just paying a sympathy call on your old backstroking buddy when we walked in the door.” “I hear you.” I took a chair in the far corner. Mike opened the door and signaled to Lily to come back into the room. “It makes me so much more comfortable to have Alex in on our conversations,” Lily said. “You must know how it is, when it’s your first experience with the police. I’m overwhelmed by everything that’s happened this week.” Mike had parked himself on a corner of the desk, opposite Lily, forcing her to look up at him. He liked being in control. “I was just telling Alex that you have a suspicion about some kind of blackmail,”
