Chapter 48

“You may.”

“Keir Upton is my employee, as I’m certain he stated when he was on the witness stand. He was also undercover as part of the police department’s attempt to catch the killer of two young, homeless men in Faircrest. Again something I’m certain has been brought out. As part of his going undercover, he spent his nights in the park. All night and into the early morning. As he waspretending to be a homeless boy, he couldn’t very well have a motel room of his own. He would come to mine, to report in and catch some sleep.”

“You are stating that there is no relationship between the two of you other than that of employer and employee?” Hancock said.

“I am. Mr. Upton spent a year on the streets when he was a teen—something that should have been brought out when he took the stand. He made no bones about it to me when I hired him, even admitting that there were times when he had to sell himself to stay alive.”

“Your point is, Mr. Donovan?”