I'm sorry this is so pathetically short but I have been looking at it for 2 days and didn't think I could extend this chapter any more. I think it ends at a good place so I am giving in and just posting it...again sorry about the shortness. Thanks so much! I love the reviews!

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Chapter 4

She felt like she was intruding on a private moment or something and looked away from her 'boyfriend.' The way Walsh was looking at his 'partner' on the stand hurt like hell. He looked at Shraeger in a way he had never looked at her before.

Beaumont thought about how different Jason was since becoming partners with Casey. It was a gradual thing really. She had first started noticing small things like extra plates being in the sink at the diner when she knew that he hadn't opened for the day. One day she even went early to surprise Walsh and saw that Casey was asleep at the bar.

If she wanted to have a meal with her boyfriend she would have to make plans in advance or she would get the excuse that he had already grabbed something with Casey.

Those incidents were bad enough but the worst thing was the time they were having sex and he stopped to answer his phone because Casey was calling. He then got up and let her in! It wasn't really even about a case; she just needed some help with something she was doing for a friend or something.

She had tried to overlook all of it and had actually convinced herself that she was looking more into it than was there. But after finding them in the bathroom earlier and how he was looking at her now, she couldn't keep fooling herself.

Jason was in love of that she was sure….but unfortunately it wasn't with her.

She desperately wanted to believe that it was because Shraeger had money or something but she knew that didn't matter to Jason. She knew he had been in love with her long before everyone found out she was part of the 25th richest family in Manhattan.

She could be the bigger person and be happy that he had found whatever it was he was looking for, even if it wasn't with her. But she sure wasn't a big enough person to be okay with being dumped and she knew it was coming.

Making up her mind, she knew she had to break up with him before he could break up with her.

Her attention drifted back to the courtroom as Casey crossed in front of her to regain her seat.

Walsh leaned across Beaumont and patted Casey's knee, "good job."

"Thanks." Casey smiled at him.

Beaumont rolled her eyes and waited as Jason was then called up to the front.

Jason Walsh was grinning like an idiot the whole time he was up on the stand. Confirmation of her previous thoughts registered in Beaumont's head as she glanced to her right to see Shraeger smiling right back at him.

She was a big girl, a cop afterall; she could handle a little heartbreak and come out better for the ware. Now she knew Jason wasn't the one and could move on to bigger and better.

Tears threatened to well up in her eyes but she fought them back. Tears would have to wait until she was home alone, snuggled under her big fluffy blanket with a tub of ice cream and angry chick music playing on her CD player.

She had been here before and would no doubt be here again. She sighed as she settled in and listened to the rest of the trial.

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