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Jack had waited to feed the extra information about Theo Curwood back to Professional Standards. When he and Wendy got back the previous afternoon, he’d gone into his office on the pretext of making the call, but decided against it. This was something he needed to sleep on. In any case, he couldn’t risk having to tell Professional Standards he’d been conducting his own investigation into Curwood. That was well beyond his remit, and would likely result in Jack being the next subject of their investigation.
The first knock on his office door that morning was from Wendy.
‘Want a coffee?’ she asked.
She never asked him if he wanted coffee. Everyone got their own. That was the way it was.
‘No thanks,’ he replied, not looking up from the stack of papers in front of him.
‘How are you fee
