A Sinister Crime Book 3 [Sample]

Chapter Seven: [Edited]

Chapter Seven

James's father Matt Harrison who is the captain of the NYPD, calls James into his office after he saw James walking up to his desk and James sighed and he put down a file on his desk and walked up to his father, sighing.

After James walks into his father's office, Matt shuts the door and he walks up to his desk, steps behind his desk and faces James as James was standing up facing his father.

Matt doesn't say a word for a second until he does. James swallows as he heard himself gulp.

"James, are you okay?" wandering Matt.

James puts his hands in his pockets and he shrugs his shoulders as he nods his head and says, "yeah."

Matt nods his head. "Are you sure?" wondered Matt.

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" says James.

"James, I know you. You're my son. I know when something is really bothering you then my job is to ask not only as your captain but as your father, to be sure you're okay," says Matt.

James sighs as he takes both his hands out of his pockets and takes one hand and strokes his hair to the side of his head.

"I'm fine," answered James. Matt nods his head.

"Because you don't look fine. You look a little hungover," says Matt. James chuckles.

"So you're gonna talk to me about my alcoholism, dad," says James.

"James. I'm just asking to be sure. Because you could jeopardize your job," says Matt.

James scoffs. "Dad." says James.

Matt sighed. "What's going on?" wondered Matt. "Tell me."

James nods his head. "I don't know. I mean." James shrugs his shoulders.

"Is this about what happened to your former partner?" says Matt.

James rolled his eyes and sighed. "James. I know what you're doing to yourself," says Matt.

"Okay. What am I doing to myself, dad?" says James, in a furious tone as he looks at his father.

"I think you're having triggers that are causing you to feel like you're responsible over what happened to Tom," says Matt.

James chuckles. "What makes you think that?" wondered James. Matt sighed.

"Ben told me what happened earlier when you told Mrs. Rover about the loss of Sadie Rover, her daughter," says Matt.

"Okay well I sort of had a hard time telling her that her daughter was murdered, what does that have to do with my me being an alcoholic," says James.

Matt nods his head. "Yeah, and then you puked. And Ben told me that you looked a little bit hammered, the day you told Mrs. Rover that her daughter was murdered, and you came to work also a little bit hungover today as well," says Matt.

James scoffed. "So I'm gonna ask you this, are you drinking again?" wondered Matt.

"Dad, I haven't drank in two years. I mean, I'm fine," says James.

"James. I heard you earlier in the bathroom, throwing up. You were sick and vomiting again," says Matt.

"Okay, well, you may be mistaken that I'm hungover, because I'm not. I'm just tired. I work day and night investigating murders, and it's a lot of work," says James.