When Liam finished, Vance felt a familiar chill. The pattern fit too well. It was the same contractors he’d heard rumors about. Same streets. Same hands on both sides of the law. Adam had stepped into a web already spun long before he took the wheel.
Internal Affairs listened to Liam’s recorded statement with flat faces. When it ended, no one spoke. “Old case. Old file,” one of them said. “A lot of people signed off on that.” The message was clear: reopening it meant accusing their own.