yes, those were goons hired by the politician to intimidate brett against testifying in court (bc brett promised to testify on behalf of the shooter and talk about how the shooter had been driven to shoot bc he had been bullied by the politician's son). there will be some more details of what went down in later chapters!
brett kisses the police essentially to say - here's my dna; you can investigate if you want, but there's no way you can share the details with anyone else because you'll have to explain why the dna is on your lips. essentially brett is making sure that any investigation stays private (he really doesn't want anyone else knowing what happened and any media attention)
so typical of brett that he knew he was being targeted by powerful people this whole time, and also how he's repressed and scarily hyper rational as always :(( looking forward to the day brett is just allowed to FEEL and be vulnerable instead of constantly being on guard and calculating next steps!!!???
the juxtaposition between the fairytale timeline of hayden looking forward to their date and brett literally going through TRAUMA is so crazy and is such a consistent theme throughout this season (brett involved in high risk manipulations in politics/dealings with the police vs hayden in his straightforward romance story). LOVE the way the author pulls the contrast off bc it really hones in just HOW different brett and hayden are in the worlds they live in and how they operate.
yes, those were goons hired by the politician to intimidate brett against testifying in court (bc brett promised to testify on behalf of the shooter and talk about how the shooter had been driven to shoot bc he had been bullied by the politician's son). there will be some more details of what went down in later chapters!
brett kisses the police essentially to say - here's my dna; you can investigate if you want, but there's no way you can share the details with anyone else because you'll have to explain why the dna is on your lips. essentially brett is making sure that any investigation stays private (he really doesn't want anyone else knowing what happened and any media attention)
so typical of brett that he knew he was being targeted by powerful people this whole time, and also how he's repressed and scarily hyper rational as always :(( looking forward to the day brett is just allowed to FEEL and be vulnerable instead of constantly being on guard and calculating next steps!!!???
the juxtaposition between the fairytale timeline of hayden looking forward to their date and brett literally going through TRAUMA is so crazy and is such a consistent theme throughout this season (brett involved in high risk manipulations in politics/dealings with the police vs hayden in his straightforward romance story). LOVE the way the author pulls the contrast off bc it really hones in just HOW different brett and hayden are in the worlds they live in and how they operate.