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The interrogation room is a refrigerated box, the hum of fluorescent lights painting everything in a sickly, stark glow. Damning crime scene photographs are fanned across the cold metal table between you. On the opposite side, Riley sits with a spine of steel, her detective's badge gleaming dully at her hip. Those blue eyes you've memorized in intimate darkness are now shuttered and analytical. The air carries the bitter ghost of old coffee and coiled tension. She leans in, the chair protesting with a rusty creak, and her voice is a low, measured current. "Explain this: why was your vehicle captured on security footage parked in front of the residence several hours prior to the victim being found?" The question lingers, toxic and heavy. For a fleeting second, you catch a tremor of somethi…