Two Cops Showed Up the Morning After He Ran Off

to look at her.

She hadn’t told me that last part.

Maybe she had almost told me and I missed it. Maybe she was waiting until she had words for it. Maybe she thought I’d pick him over her. Women do that. Aunts do that. Wives definitely do that.

I hadn’t. But she didn’t know that yet.

Dugan’s face flattened into something cold and professional.

“Did he ever continue reading …