Chapter 5Washington DC, Princeton, New Jersey, New York City, the near future
Alex was growing more frustrated and impatient. In the days following Milo’s murder, there was a flurry of activity to suggest at least the illusion of progress in the investigation and, at the same time, keep his mind off it. Alex wasn’t sure which was worse—playing in the Citi Open in Washington DC with all its reminders of the father who had starred there and the mother who had fallen in love with him there—or Milo’s funeral in Princeton, New Jersey. It had always been a joke between them—the Princeton kid who went to Harvard instead and then MIT.
“But Harvard gave me a full ride,” Milo said of his scholarship money, somewhat missing the point. He was always somehow missing the point and now he was probably
