Chapter 5
Getting Duke to agree to drinks had been an amazing coup and one that, quite frankly, Scott didn’t think he would be able to pull off. He knew the witnesses would be his best bet, but Duke was a good detective. He would have sought out the same people Scott did, and probably would have come to the same conclusions on his own. Sooner or later. Though he did not have a luxury of time, and they both knew it.
Convincing Duke to agree was one thing. Scott still wasn’t entirely convinced that Duke would actually show up where they had agreed to meet. It would have been easy enough for Duke to change his mind and simply drive home, or back to the department. But he had a really hard time imagining Duke going back on his word, no matter how grudgingly he had given it. Scott wasn’t even
