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concerned. Their refusal to ride with her smacked of discrimination. If there was one thing the department didn’t need, it was a discrimination suit.
    “Okay. Let her ride with you, but don’t let her take over, Bryan,” he warned the boy. “That’s one woman, if you give her a chance, that’ll run right over you.”
    Bryan’s eyes widened. “Aw, Jack, she’s a sweet little thing.” He laughed at the thought. “Just because she’s a Yankee doesn’t mean you have to watch her. Course, watching her will be fun.” The male look of approval could get the boy decked, Jackson thought.
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    “We’ve had Yankees here before, Bryan. You’re starting to sound like your grandfather. They’re not a different species from us, you know?” Jackson reminded him.
    “Besides, Becca was born and raised here. She’s not really a Yankee.”
    “I know. But Officer Taylor is sure an improvement to the force.” He smiled, his too innocent blue eyes reflecting his growing awareness of Becca’s female qualities.
    Jackson frowned.
    “Don’t start, Bryan. She’s a fellow officer. Remember the sexual harassment classes we all had to take?” Pain in the ass. Like they didn’t know they weren’t supposed to grope an employee’s ass.
    Jackson frowned. Damned if Officer Becca didn’t have an ass well worth groping.
    “Yeah, I know.” Bryan grinned. “I promise, I won’t sexually harass her. But that sure don’t mean I can’t look. I’ll go let her know. Hell, maybe I’ll even let her drive my cruiser. That oughta make her feel good.”
    Jackson lowered his brows as the young officer left the room. Let her drive his cruiser? Bryan was severely underestimating Officer Ree-Becca Taylor. She would most likely insist on it. Determination and stubbornness sat on her shoulders like mantles of pride. Damn, getting back into her pants wasn’t going to be easy. It was going to be damned hard if he didn’t do something fast. He needed information. One sure way to find your opponent’s weakness was to arm yourself with knowledge.
    Grinning at that, he picked up the phone and punched in a familiar number. Ted Mason, an officer with the Illinois State Police Force could get the answers he needed.
    And he owed Jackson. Owed him big.
    “Mason.” The burly trooper answered on the first ring.
    “Hey, Ted, it’s Jackson. How’s my sister doing?” Jackson didn’t even try to smother his laughter.
    “Damn you, Jack, that woman’s driving me crazy. Do you know she painted the front room purple? Freaking purple. What drives that woman?”
    Jackson held the phone away from his mouth. He couldn’t control his laughter on that one.
    “Laugh it up. You’ll be laughing when I cart her ass back to Hicksville to you,” Ted threatened good-naturedly. “Now why the hell are you calling? If you wanted to check on Candy, you could have called her yourself.”
    Jackson sighed.
    “I need a check run on one of Chicago’s former finest,” he told him, liking the way Ted took care of business first. “Name’s Rebecca Taylor. Age twenty-six. She just transferred to Jericho, and I need to know why.”
    There was silence across the line for a long moment.
    “Fat ole Tommy Whittaker pulled in a female officer?” Ted asked suspiciously. “The same male chauvinist, no-female-on-my-force, Whittaker?”
    “Yep, that’s the one.” Jackson leaned back in his chair. “I need to know what the hell’s up with this. It’s fishy.”
    “Hell yeah.” Silence stretched again. When Ted came back he was all business.
    “”You think this has anything to do with Porter’s death?”
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    “I don’t, Ted, but something doesn’t feel right about it. Whittaker didn’t tell me who my new deputy was, or even when she was showing up. I was led to believe it was a male for weeks. I need to know what’s up with it.”
    ”You think she’s involved?”
    Ted was one of the few people aware of

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