** Please note when I write romance it's from 2 points of view intermingled in the same chapter, head hopping if you will. If you are confused, apologies in advance. I just like you to see the scene from both characters point of view. It's how I write romance :)
This is also a first draft, so I am sure there are mistakes galore! Enjoy!! **
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SSA agent Jeremy Bradford, kept his FBI issued Glock 23 held steady as he and several swat team members moved down the hallway towered the unsub's apartment. One of the residents opened his door and Jeremy put a finger to his lips and shooed him back inside. Tonight was not a night for civilians to be out snooping.
The unsub was suspected of murdering at least a dozen women in all five Burroughs of New York City. If it hadn't been for all the media coverage, the detectives working the cases in each precinct may never have put it together. Thanks to the press and some very smart police work, they had linked the pattern killings.
They'd call in the behavioral analysis unit of the FBI because they needed help. After the initial profile was given, Jeremy had been asked by his boss to stay behind until the unsub was caught. This guy was a nasty piece of work, so he'd agreed.
And here he was now, slowly making his way toward the apartment of one Jeffrey Mitchell Powers. He was a thirty-three-year-old electrician who fit the profile to a T. Tall, glasses, and blonde hair. He had a smile that could put people at ease and was charming to a fault.
He checked his watch.
3am.
He nodded to Detective Jack Flynn, the lead detective in charge of the task force to find this sadistic son of a bitch. Flynn kissed the cross he wore around his neck and then pounded on the door. "NYPD! We have a warrant, open the door!"
They heard noises inside and both he and Flynn moved out of the way so that one of the swat officers could knock down the door. They went in one by one and he and Flynn headed toward the back of the apartment to the bedroom. The window was wide open and Jeremy looked out to see the unsub fleeing not down the fire escape where officers waited, but up the stairs to the roof.
"Mother of..." Jeremy holstered his weapon and started climbing shouting to Flynn to follow him. After six flights of stairs, he broke the rooftop and pulled his gun. There was no where to go up here. They'd done their homework. No connecting walkways between buildings and they'd made sure the door to the roof access was locked on the inside.
It was windy tonight, so Jeremy took extra care to creep along every shield he could. The roof was essentially a vast open space aside from a small area of picnic tables and a rooftop garden set up by the residents. A few stacks littered the surface, but otherwise nothing.
"Powers, there's no where to go," he called out. "You might as well make this easy and surrender yourself. No one has to get hurt."
Flynn finally huffed up the stairs and came to crouch beside him behind the small column he used as a shield in case Powers had a gun. "Any sign of him?"
Jeremy shook his head but didn't elaborate. Powers had nowhere to go and they both knew it. He wasn't getting off this roof. Two swat team members appeared in the open doorway and Jeremey waved them back. He wanted them there in case Powers managed to slip around them. He'd be met with force.
Flynn gestured to the officers behind them to stay put, in tune with Jeremy's thinking without him having to voice the thought. This was a man he wouldn't mind having for a partner even if the guy was a little overweight and slow. The real chase came into play with the mind games of the hunt and being in sync with your partner in that respect mattered as much if not more than the physicality of partnership.
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