Luke began to laugh, but a sharp pain in his ribs soon stopped him.
* * * *
As they walked across the car park, Luke was glowing. Andy had run rings round the police, though the inspector was harder to browbeat. However, he did promise to look into Luke’s attack. At Andy’s prompting, the man had written down Andy’s address and phone number, and, after further badgering, agreed to call if there was any progress.
Andy had seemed somewhat mollified.
“But they probably won’t do anything,” he told Luke as they reached the van.
“You were great in there, bloody amazing.”
Luke wanted to reach out, cuddle up to and generally feel closer to Andy, but didn’t feel comfortable doing so in the middle of the car park.
After Andy had unlocked his vehicle, Luke thought he’d have another go at movin
