Southtown
Southtown
“Ana DeLeon was leaning against the reception desk, talking to a couple of uniforms and another plainclothes detective.
She might’ve been mistaken for a young professional—a hospital administrator being hit on by the three male cops—unless you noticed the sergeant’s badge clipped to her belt, or the shoulder holster under her blue silk blazer. Or unless you knew, like every guy in SAPD, that the last cop who tried to hit on Ana DeLeon pulled desk duty for a month and still had trouble sitting do...wn without pain.
She saw me approaching, told her colleagues something on the order of: Here comes Navarre. Get lost or I’ll make you talk to him.
They got lost.
“I stayed at the office until seven last night,” she told me. “I keep wondering—if you’d showed, would we be here now?” “What’s the word?” “No change in condition. And no leads on the shooter, unless you’re bringing me something.” I used to have a martial arts instructor who could press his hand very softly on the center of my chest, and no amount of effort could dislodge him.MoreLess
She might’ve been mistaken for a young professional—a hospital administrator being hit on by the three male cops—unless you noticed the sergeant’s badge clipped to her belt, or the shoulder holster under her blue silk blazer. Or unless you knew, like every guy in SAPD, that the last cop who tried to hit on Ana DeLeon pulled desk duty for a month and still had trouble sitting do...wn without pain.
She saw me approaching, told her colleagues something on the order of: Here comes Navarre. Get lost or I’ll make you talk to him.
They got lost.
“I stayed at the office until seven last night,” she told me. “I keep wondering—if you’d showed, would we be here now?” “What’s the word?” “No change in condition. And no leads on the shooter, unless you’re bringing me something.” I used to have a martial arts instructor who could press his hand very softly on the center of my chest, and no amount of effort could dislodge him.MoreLess
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