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stood at
attention as he continued to eye them, but his attention always
returned to the woman he was more than confident was the sexually
insatiable drunken whore that he spent the night with.
    “Is there a problem?” Manning
asked.
    “No, Sir,” he responded.
    “Good!” the older man beamed. “I’ll
let you get acquainted. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised with
them, especially de Wolfe. She is a very impressive
Officer.”
    That was putting it
mildly.
    “Your uncanny ability to read
people has always been admirable,” Captain Nikas said, getting a
chuckle from Manning in return. “Welcome to District C-11. Grimes,
may I speak with you?” he said, waving the first Officer into his
office.
    The other two waited their
turn.
    Captain Nikas asked the nervous
Officer generalized questions, trying to read him, to find the
reason why Manning had specifically picked Grimes to be part of
C-11. After ten minutes, the office door opened and Captain Nikas
shook his hand and motioned down a side hall. “CACU is the last
door on the right. Sanderson will be your superior and show you
around, and get you acclimated to the system.”
    Grimes saluted with a
face-consuming smile before hurrying down the hallway. He joined
the force solely to be able to help children, so the Crimes Against
Children Unit was a perfect fit for him.
    Captain Nikas repeated the
procedure with Henderson, but his eyes kept flickering to the stone
faced woman standing at attention outside his office, her face as
hard and unreadable as stone, ocean blue eyes narrowed in
irritation, and the hard set of her jaw slightly amused him because
he looked the same when he was betrayed.
    After ten minutes, Captain Nikas
nodded and stood then motioned towards the door. “Smith in the FAS
won’t be expecting you, but he’ll get over it. Firearms Analysis
Section needs help, especially with the backlog of cases we have.
If he gives you grief, tell him to come see me.”
    Henderson saluted. “Thank you,
Sir,” he barked out, in typical military fashion, which was to be
expected since he was an honorably discharged Marine that served
three tours in Iraq, then hurried off towards the
basement.
    “Officer de Wolfe,” Captain Nikas
said, motioning towards his office.
    Akia stood tall and with her
shoulders back and head held high and walked past him and stood at
attention, ignoring his offer when he motioned for her to take a
seat.
    Stubborn and proud, two
things I can respect and find sexy as hell… Damn it, he silently berated himself.
    “I don’t want to talk about
myself,” Akia said when he opened his mouth. “I heard the small
talk you had with the other two, and I have no interest in
bothering with the inconsequential.”
    Captain Nikas nodded. “Fair
enough,” he said. “Will this be a problem?”
    “Whatever are you inferring to?”
she scathingly sneered. “Since I’m nothing more than a mate head
devouring praying mantis, you’ll have to be a bit more
specific.”
    And that was exactly what he wanted
to hear.
    “Will this,” Captain Nikas said,
looking up at her from his desk, “be a problem? Because if it is,
I’ll request a reassignment,” he said before he could stop the
words from leaving his lips.
    Akia’s small nostrils flared, and
her ocean blue eyes darkened considerably. “I worked my ass off to
get this beat,” she hissed, struggling to keep her composure. “And
if you think I’m going to simply give it up, to go to some smaller
populous beat simply because you can’t stomach looking at the woman
you got shit faced and fucked, then snuck out of her bed like a
coward, you have another thing coming. You mean nothing to me, and
what we did means nothing to me, so no, it won’t be a
problem-”
    “For me,” he explained. “Not a
transfer for you, but for me.”
    The anger visibly left her and her
head tilted to the side as if confused. “Huh?” she asked,
dumbfounded. It was common knowledge that the most sought