Bye Bye Baby

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I was on my way downstairs to grab a can of something fizzy from the drinks machine when I passed Detective Sergeant Dutton's office. I made the mistake of looking up. He saw me and waved me over.

His room was tiny. The desk took up most of the space and it wasn't a big desk. I wondered how Dutton managed to pull the chair out far enough to squeeze himself in. He was a beefy guy with a porn-star moustache, which he was stroking as he listened to the caller on the other end of the phone.

I stood in the doorway catching the faint smell of tobacco smoke from Dutton's clothes.

He scribbled a few notes, grunted something, then said goodbye and hung up.

"You can have this one, Collins," he said to me. "Missing kid."

"You serious?"

Dutton didn't like me. Few people did, mainly because of my uncle. But with Dutton it was personal.

I'd told his wife she should leave him and she'd told him what I said.

Yeah, I know, I should mind my own business. But I'd heard the way he spoke to her and it was ugly. I'd happily do the same again.

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