Luca's POV
The precinct first. Maya looked at me when David said it and I could see her making the same calculation I was. The precinct was twelve steps away and my father was in critical condition at a hospital twenty blocks north and both things were true at the same time.
"Go," she said.
"The precinct…."
"David is here. I don't need you to hold my hand in a police interview." She held my gaze. "Go to your father."
"I don't know what I want to do."
"I know." She stepped closer. "Go anyway."
I looked at her for a moment.
Then I flagged a cab and went.
Lenox Hill was already busy at nine in the morning in the particular way hospitals are always busy, purposeful movement in every direction, nobody looking at anyone else. I told the desk who I was, and a nurse took me to a waiting a
