Once Kylie was dropped off, Brooks joined Alan in the front seat of the car, and Alan could feel his nephew’s stare through the darkness. He ignored it as best he could, but at the first light they caught, Brooks spoke. “So who is that guy really?”
Alan decided to play it cool. “What guy?”
He could almost hear his nephew’s eyeroll. “Um, Detective Garrison? You’ve only been thinking about him since we got in the car.”
I’ve been thinking about him much longer than you know.
But he didn’t need to tell Brooks that. With a shrug, he hoped he sounded nonchalant when he said, “I don’t know, just a cop.”
“Uh-huh.” Brooks wasn’t buying it.
Alan bit the inside of his cheek to keep from saying anything else. After a long moment, the light turned green and he eased his foot off the clutch as he
