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A fewhim that there had been a brutal rape near Central Park, the victim currently en route to the hospital

Coop hit the ground running, arriving at the eency room at the same time as the ambulance The next few days passed in a flurry of interviews and activity, leaving hirandfather’s possible involvement

Finally, Friday evening arrived He had one last article to pull together for the evening edition, then he was off for the weekend, unless so cropped up that he didn’t want to miss out on

Coop entered the lobby in the recently re The news offices were on the seventeenth floor Mirrored walls and trees lined the side walls and people were already leaving for the day

As usual, Coop stopped by the security desk in the center of the lobby to say hello to his buddy, Chris Markov, the unifore as Coop, the two had been friends for over five years and now played on the saue

“Hey, man How are you?” Coop asked

Chris lifted his hat and scratched his head “Not bad Yourself?”

“Hanging in Are you off duty soon?” Coop asked

“Sure aame”

The ht Hisstories he’d been covering over the last few days, shifted gears and lightened

“Great weather for a baseball gaht to have a blast,” he said of Chris’s seven-year-old son, who he’d been raising on his own since his alked out when the boy was three

“He loves the Renegades,” Chris said, laughing

“I hear you Have fun I’ve gotta go write et out of here Catch you later”

Coop turned to leave, when Chris called out, stopping hile ladies in this town, as you requested But this caerie” He pulled out a large brown box with the word Fragile stamped in red on the top and bottom

Chris had been happy to take over handling the Bachelor’s goodies But he was right This package lookedany deliveries, but in his line of work you never kneho’d send you soh this was a little larger than anything he’d received before

“Doesn’t look like the fancy blogger stuff frootten way too ifts, chuckled yet again “I i to do with the wo off”

Chris knew da hiood-naturedly “And quit reading that garbage”

But it still boggled theThroughout the day, at the hospital where the rape victiht, everyone from nurses to candy stripers to the wonized Coop as the Bachelor Some had merely stared and whispered to their female friends Others had tried their best to convince hiirlfriend Hu, yet he had no choice but to suck it up

And he wasn’t about to give Chris any more ammunition