Chapter 12Aaron exchanged a dubious glance with Charlie as Quinn sprawled on the couch, laughing like he’d heard the world’s most hysterical joke. None of it made any sense to Aaron—or it made perfect sense, because Quinn had been born f*****g contrary, and what was more contrarian than a MacGregor deciding to become a cop? It was just that it was the last thing Aaron would have imagined too, because Quinn had hated authority when they were kids; cops, teachers, adults of all stripes—the only adults Quinn had listened to had been the adults in the MacGregor clan, but at least half of them, and Aaron had always suspected maybe more than that, had beaten that compliance into him.
He reached forward and picked up Quinn’s badge off the coffee table, part of him expecting it to be some cheap H
