JULIAN

Different character.

I looked at the legal pad.

I thought about what different character meant, the specific and precise meaning of that phrase when it was applied to pharmaceutical contracts from a particular era, and I thought about what an investigation that was already moving toward Bridget and Marcus and the specific and particular financial arrangements they had made might find if it kept moving in the direction it was moving.

I thought about what it would find.

I thought: Liam Whitley does not make calls to a detective's lieutenant at seven-fifteen in the morning because he is concerned about an old friend's legal trouble.

I thought: Liam Whitley...