“All right, David. If you’re sure...?”
“I’m sure.”
“You know I’ll always have your six.”
“I know. I’ve always known I could count on you, Quinn. Uh... there’s one thing more.” He looked into my eyes. “My mother. She wants me to resign.”
“Are you going to?” That didn’t surprise me. She was a civilian, after all.
“No. I don’t know. How did you deal with it, Quinn? I nearly piss my pants every time I think about that gun aimed at me.”
“There’s no reason for you to deal with it. You’re not a field officer, and what happened last night—” Jesus, it was only last night.—“was a fluke. The odds of it happening again are none and none.”
The tapping of high heels on the tiled floor of the hospital’s corridor drew my attention, and I glanced around as a young woman entered the room. “Davy, Mom’
