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Lucas met with the detective the next morning. Maya Badger had been a year ahead of him in high school, and they’d actually dated for about three months—a time they never talked about anymore. She’d always been smart but quiet, and he never would have pegged her for a future police officer.
Showed what he knew, because she’d joined the tiny police department right out of school and worked her way up to lead—and only—detective at a rapid pace. Her quiet manner worked in her favor. She knew how to drain the drama out of a situation and get suspects to spill incriminating secrets.
But so far, she hadn’t been able to get Lucas to drop his quest to find out if there was more to his father’s death than the official ruling of “accident.”
Maya showed up at the Jack Hammer as he was setting o
