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After having arrived back at Mildenheath Police Station, Jack was disappointed to see Chief Constable Charles Hawes walking towards him in the corridor.
It wasn’t that he was disappointed to see the Chief Constable himself; more that he could read Hawes’s face like a child’s picture book and knew when it was going to be bad news.
It wasn’t unusual to see Hawes at Mildenheath, either. Even though his official office was at county headquarters at Milton House, Hawes much preferred the more relaxed and — dare he say it — old-school environment of Mildenheath. As such, he’d retained an office there too, and tended to spend more time there than he did at Milton House.
Jack knew Hawes was one of the only reasons why Mildenheath CID still existed — and why he still had a job — and he also k
