Chapter 195 Promotion and Reunion with Bobby
Dustin nodded his head slightly. “It’s done. You got two extra days for your trip because we were in the middle of final negotiations.”
“What about Luke’s transfer?” Elsa was more concerned about the FBI’s intent to hire Luke than their share of the credit.
Dustin nodded his head again. “The credit for rescuing the hostages will go to the FBI, and they’ll stop trying to poach Luke.”
Elsa understood.
In the Nakatomi Plaza case, the events ranked in order of importance were: reclaiming bonds > rescuing hostages > arresting robbers.
In this capitalist country, the bonds that were worth 640 million were certainly more important than anything else.
However, this wasn’t something that could be said in public. In the public eye, the events were ranked as: rescuing hostages > reclaiming bonds > arresting robbers.
The FBI got the credit for rescuing the hostages, which made up for the mistakes they made while on the case.
So, the FBI would be considered a major contributor to the case. As for how they would deal with the person who had been in charge, that was a different matter altogether.
Now that the FBI had gotten the credit, they stopped trying to poach Luke.
The FBI was genuinely interested in Luke, who had demonstrated his capabilities, but he had mostly been used as leverage in this negotiation; he wasn’t so important yet that they were determined to recruit him.
After a brief hesitation, Elsa asked in a low voice, “Boss, what about me?”
Dustin looked at her calmly and said, “Just do your job as usual. I’m not the chief. I can’t say anything for sure about your promotion.”
Elsa got it.
Although Dustin wasn’t promising anything, he was implying that she would be promoted soon.
The latter half of what he said wasn’t an irresponsible remark, but a fact.
Dustin played a big role in campaigning for Elsa’s promotion, but it was the chief who would make the final decision.
Until the promotion papers were issued, Dustin couldn’t promise anything.
If he guaranteed that Elsa would be promoted, he would be disappointing her later if she wasn’t.
Dustin’s subordinates had held it against him before over something like this, so he paid attention to detail now.
Seeing that Elsa got it, Dustin said, “You should learn from Luke once in a while. He was bold enough to ask for my permission to take some time off.”
Elsa chuckled. “I’ve been a police officer for eight years, but he’s killed more people than I have. I certainly can’t sit around and be lazy when I’m not as capable as he is.”
Dustin smiled with satisfaction.
Elsa knew herself very well and wasn’t jealous of Luke.
I have to work harder to make her a sergeant this time! Dustin thought to himself.
It would be too much of a waste for Elsa and Luke to work as partners.
Elsa in a leadership role and Luke working with an assistant detective would be better for the both of them.
This was because Elsa was a control freak and Luke was… even more so.
They got along well not because Elsa was smart, but because Luke had given in all this time.
Dustin could easily tell from the case files how much credit Luke had given away to Elsa in the past few months.
The real reason why Elsa and Luke never had a conflict was that Luke didn’t want to be promoted.
Until now, Luke was the only young officer Dustin had met who wasn’t interested in credit.
However, Dustin couldn’t watch Elsa claim Luke’s credit without doing anything.
Luke had distinguished himself with his abilities, and Dustin had to make sure that he didn’t feel it was unfair.
Even though Luke didn’t need to be promoted, Dustin couldn’t pretend to be ignorant of his contributions.
So, if he promoted Elsa as Luke’s commander, they could both benefit from Luke cracking cases
As for Luke’s new partner, well, wasn’t there a girl who had followed him all the way here to LAPD?
Thinking that, Dustin continued, “But you should still learn from Luke. Tell me, considering his behavior just now, who do you think was the boss, you or him?”
Stumped for a moment, Elsa smiled wryly. “I don’t have a choice. In our team, I run the analyses most of the time, while he does the actual legwork.”
Dustin waved his hand. “That’s not the reason. It’s about your attitude. Don’t do things yourself when you should get somebody else to do them.”
Elsa was delighted, since that implied that she would be promoted to a leadership role soon. “I got it, boss. I’ll pay more attention to that.”
Dustin nodded. “You can leave now. Just read the case file at home and get some rest if you’re tired.”
Elsa obeyed and left.
Over on Luke’s side, he went to the logistics division with the certificate to claim his car.
He was very satisfied with his new car, not because it was expensive, but because it wasn’t an ordinary one.
The car was a brand new Chevrolet Impala with many practical modifications, such as a bumper, reinforced suspension, a police communication system, and bulletproof front doors.
It was far better than the cars which most other officers had.
Luke was quite satisfied. This car was evidently Dustin’s acknowledgment of his contributions to the department; he could’ve given Luke a random new car, otherwise.
After obtaining the car, Luke went to a law firm to get the documents that he had previously entrusted to the lawyers to handle. Then, he returned to his old apartment.
It had been more than ten days. He wondered how Bobby was doing.
Sheerah didn’t say anything to Elsa about Bobby harassing her again, so Bobby couldn’t be doing too badly.
Luke knocked on the door, and it was only a long time later that someone answered.
When he saw Luke, Bobby suddenly shivered. “You… you’re here? Please come in.”
Luke nodded with a smile and entered the apartment. “I’ll give you ten minutes to clean yourself up. Then we’ll talk.”
Bobby quickly went to take a shower.
Luke looked around the living room. The place was untidy, but not especially dirty. It was just what one would expect of a single man living on his own.
There were several sheets of paper and a pen on the table.
Luke checked the papers, only to discover that it was a list of information on Larry Page and Google’s leadership.
Luke nodded slightly. Bobby hadn’t known he was coming, so this couldn’t be for show. Bobby really was learning the information.