(continues on from
here)
Shane's eyebrows rose. Twenty four hours of rest a week? He'd probably lived on something close to that in the weeks after 9/11, but he wasn't functioning all that well at the end, and it had been months before his exhausted body made up the sleep deficit. Right now, he wasn't that tired, but he was definitely in need of sleep.
"Do you think a hotel would charge a police officer?"
His eyebrows, which had been descending, raised again. For some reason, that statement coming from Murphy seemed . . . odd. He got the feeling Murphy was a stand-up guy, a cop who never abused his position.
As was he - he'd never so much as accepted a free cup of coffee from a business in his years on the force. But this was a new ballgame, and he was in kind of a bind.
"I'm not sure, but I guess I can always try."
Resolving that if he did manage to snare himself a free room for the night, he'd find some way to pay for it later. He didn't think his conscience would settle for anything else.