I'm Your Bully (Bully Book Series 1) (12 page)

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I, Illicit

By

Andrea Tyse

"Jesus is that her?"  The men stared into the interrogation room at the woman, who sat on the lone bench.  They watched her through a two way mirror.   If she had looked at the mirror she would have seen her reflection.  Instead there she sat with her long brown hair cloaking her body gazing directly at the door on the other side of the room.  Her hands lay gently on her thighs, almost as though they were each placed precisely. 

"Does she ever blink?" The younger of the men inquired.   Simon was a fit tall blond with a warm welcoming smile.

"Just like anybody else," the gruff reply sounded like a partial sigh. 

"She's so pale and thin.  I'm not so sure this is a good idea, maybe she's still in shock or something?"

"No, she's always like this, you'll get used to it.  Listen, nobody's really sure how she is going to take this thing.   She reacted very strongly to his death.  She'd slit her wrist and was pouring her own blood into the wound on his chest and rubbing it in with the other hand.”  The old man was rubbing the back of his neck almost as if he was at a loss to help her. “She was shaking when I found her, talking to herself."

"So, she's been here ever since she got out of the hospital." 

“It's time for her to go to home now.  Look you’re one of the best and Bionites like her are still experimental.  She's never had family or friends, which was a requirement of the program.  He's all she's ever known."

"From the file I've read so far, she's been very efficient for the police, she's saved a lot of lives."

The older man grunted, "That's true, but she's paid the price over and over again.  Choosing you as her new partner was a real tricky thing.  The upper management went crazy over a young guy as her partner and a stranger to them, but many in the program felt it was a necessity.  You've got the brains and the ability to use her to the fullest extent, we need that.  She was with her last partner for fifteen years, he taught her everything he knew and he was very good.  So is she, but he wasn't getting any younger,” he paused, “still he had years left and no one thought this far ahead."

The older man turned to the younger looking at him hard.  The man was in his late twenty's with a strong build and attractive face that spoke of trust and gentle nature, but his eyes were sharp revealing the mind behind the face. 

"You realize that this contract never expires, you can't move away can't go on long sabbaticals. This is it.  It's a hard life but one that can make a difference in the world if you play your cards right."

Simon turned from his boss’s accessing eyes and looked at the woman again who had not moved, barley seemed to breathe in the other room.  Something in her expression made his heart want to break.  Maybe it was in the way she sat so still like a child preparing to be called into the principal’s office.  Being a child of his father, he knew what that stillness cost her. 

"I want to meet her."

"Alright, let's introduce you to your new partner."  Before the men entered the interrogation room, Simon asked, "What was she saying over her partner's body when you found her?"

The older man said softly, "Fix him."

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