Chapter Thirty-Six Erik chuckled as the MX 60 salesman walked out of the building and made his way across the parking lot toward him. The detective had just set the vehicle down and hadn’t called ahead. With the major investigation over and after weeks of trying out his new vehicle, he had ideas for ways to make it more suited for his current job. He could only imagine any investigations into what had happened at Mu Arae would lead to similar needs. “So, here we are, Emma,” Erik remarked. “I want to pull you out. If I leave you in here while they’re doing the upgrades, it’s going to raise too many questions, and they’ll want to know right away what you are. Just because the UTC military is letting me borrow you for a while, it doesn’t mean they want me to go too far out of my way to sh