Chapter 21Darby tried not to glance in the cop’s direction when they left Birdsong. She knew he was there, he knew she knew he was there, and Edmund and Mathias behind her both knew he was there. But this was part of the song and dance of surveillance, the pretend everything is normal mentality that she was already growing to loathe. She wanted the cop gone. She wanted her normal life back.
They stuck to the shadows as much as possible, keeping Mathias on the far side from the cop’s viewpoint. The jagged edges of the hole in his jeans had been tucked inside, a dark cloth covering the pale skin to help with the camouflage. Edmund’s hand glanced across the skin in the small of her back where her shirt had pulled free of her waistband. On her other side, Mathias hummed under his breath, some
