CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Mackenzie made sure that Vanessa and Jack Springs were separated as soon as they got to the precinct. Once the initial juvenile reaction of most of the male officers over Vanessa Springs passed, the Springses were quickly ushered into separate rooms. Because Jack had been the one under arrest, he was placed in an interrogation room, where Ellington and Rodriguez questioned him.
Mackenzie, meanwhile, took Vanessa Springs to the tiny office she had been borrowing since arriving in Miami yesterday. She offered Vanessa a coffee and a creaking rollaway chair that had been collecting dust in the corner, and then sat down face-to-face with her.
“I’m going to assume you know why we separated you and your husband,” Mackenzie said.
“So we’d answer the same questions and you coul
