Epilogue
Tip took care of wrapping things up at the hospital, making sure Connie had twenty-four-hour protection. The lieutenant was still on his ass to find out who killed the gunmen, but that would die down in a day or so; besides, Tip didn’t want to look too hard. As he headed back home, he thought about all he’d been through the past few weeks, but with all of the excitement, the thing that he couldn’t shake from his mind was Connie. She was a different kind of woman.
He went home, walked up the sidewalk slowly, remembering the days when Kassie and Kelly would have been there greeting him. Fighting tears that refused to quit, he walked in, stooping to hug Flash, who despite her wounds, insisted on limping over to greet him.
“Thank God you’re alive, girl.” After sitting with Flash fo
