Page 144 of Hard Rain
Knox grabbed a slice of pizza.
“New rule.”
Everyone paused.
Knox pointed his pizza at Whip.
“Don’t get kidnapped.”
“I’ll write that down.” Whip took a sip of coffee and reached for a pepperoni slice.
“Seriously,” Knox said. “You disappear for five minutes, and Axel starts punching architecture.”
Axel frowned. “It was a security guard.”
“Close enough.”
“He was in my way,” Axel grumbled.
Whip laughed.
Cho smiled over her coffee. “That reminds me. Alvarez once put an entire shopping mall into panic mode because he thought I’d been abducted.”
Alvarez pointed at her.
“You vanished.”
“I went to the bathroom.”
“For twenty minutes.”
“There was a line.”
“You didn’t answer your radio.”
“Because I was in the bathroom.”
Knox grinned.
“Who won?”
“Internal Affairs,” Alvarez muttered.
Everyone laughed.
“That’s not the worst thing,” Cho said. “Remember the Lincoln case?”
“What?” Knox sat forward.
Alvarez groaned, took a bite of pizza, then sighed.
“I followed the wrong guy for forty-five minutes.”
Knox paused mid-bite. “How?”
“Same jacket.”
Cho snorted.
