Trading Places
Chapter One
SIX MONTHS LATER
Detective Agnes Jade was so tense she felt brittle. If these people don't get out of here, I'm
going to shatter into a million pieces, she thought. She did her best to tune out the
conversation. She thought she heard someone say something about awarding her a medal at
some ceremony. That would be the day.
Aggie looked up to see the officer from Internal Affairs she'd been dealing with staring at her.
Go ahead, stare, you bastard, see if I care. For six months he'd hounded her until she thought
she was going to lose what little mind she had left. And now he was forced to hear one of her
colleagues say not only was she reinstated on the force, all charges dropped, but they were
going to give her a damn medal in the bargain. She wished she cared enough to interpret his
expression. She didn't ... read full excerpt from Trading Places ebook
