That night, despite being exhausted and half dead on his feet, Warren found himself back in the Silver Spur. Zeke had pointed out, and Warren couldn’t find fault in the reasoning, that if Becker had a habit of seeing students, he might hang out where they do, and they should come out and see if he was there when it was busier. Not the middle of the week. He had to give his new partner points, he’d never asked why Warren and Johnny had been there in the middle of the week, but then again, it was pretty obvious. The real question was if Becker had been there with Tanalynn or if he’d just happened to be talking to her. So there he was, again, in a bar where he didn’t really want to be, looking for a man he didn’t think he’d find. He and Howard had split up, each taking different sections of

