Interview with Boone Callahan,
a Main Character from Justice Betrayed
by Patricia Bradley
“You busy?”
I looked from my computer to the doorway. Lieutenant Boone Callahan leaned against it, a frown on his face. “A little. Do you have a problem?”
He rolled his broad shoulders. “No. I just want to hang out.”
I hate it when characters won’t tell me what’s wrong, when I have to drag it out of them. I closed the top on my MacBook. “Spit it out.”
“Spit what out?” Nevertheless, he stepped into the room and moved a research book from the Queen Anne chair beside my desk before he sat down. Of course, his 6’2” frame looked ridiculous in it.
“Hold on a sec,” I said, and changed places with him. My leather chair suited him much better. “Now, what’s wrong?”
“Nothing.” He crossed his arms and stared out the window.
I waited, tapping my toe.
After two minutes of staring, he turned to me. “Why did you put Rachel in homicide? I mean, why didn’t you leave her in burglary?”
“You don’t like working with her?”
“I didn’t say that.” He smiled. “Actually, she’s great to work with. She’s smart, determined, pretty…” Boone bit his bottom lip. “Maybe too pretty. I can’t keep my mind on my job. It’s driving me crazy.”
He didn’t know how that warmed my heart. I pressed my lips together to keep from smiling. “Exactly what do you want me to do about it?”
“It would help if she wasn’t so independent.”
I eyed him. “And how do you propose I do that? You two have taken over the story…I try to get you to do one thing and you do the exact opposite.”
Boone pointed to himself. “Me? Nah…you know I’m a by-the-book person. Say, couldn’t you make her a little more like that? I mean, she goes off on these tangents, and I don’t have any control over her. I’m afraid she’s going to get herself killed.”
I doodled with my pencil. “And that would bother you?”
“Yeah! I love—I…I mean, she matters a lot to me, but we’re all wrong for each other. Besides, we’re in the same department, and I’m her supervisor—no way can we fall in love. One of us would have to leave Homicide.”
“Really?” I tap my finger to my lip, thinking.
His eyes widened. “Uh, uh. You’re not going to—” He jumped up and palmed his hands up. “No. Don’t you dare try to get us together. Not happening. Not in a million years. I don’t want to leave Homicide and neither does Rachel.”
“If you say so.” I took my chair back and shooed him out of my office. I’d just figured out another way to torture the both of them.
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8/15/18
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Excerpt Part 1
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8/15/18
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BONUS post
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8/16/18
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Excerpt Part 2
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8/17/18
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Review
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8/18/18
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Author Video
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8/19/18
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Review
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8/20/18
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Character Interview
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8/21/18
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Review
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8/22/18
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Excerpt Part 3
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8/23/18
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Excerpt Part 4
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8/24/18
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Review
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