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Davis nodded

They finished up as the rain cale at Davis “You can put this in the trash”

“I had to get a neat freak, healthy-eating, gy motherfucker like you for a partner, huh,” Davis arbage Michael knew some cops let shit collect in the back and on the floor of their vehicles He wasn’t one of thee you were a lazy cop, and Michael was anything but lazy

“Bang a Uey,” Davis advised as he got back in the car “Road’s quiet”

Michael atte else out of his head (and by everything else, he meant Dahlia) and pulled out onto the quiet street to do a U-turn He needed her out of his head so he could do his job

Then he’d go home and probably have another dream about her

Thing of it was, there was a part of Michael, an element he despised, that anticipated the dream A part of him that whispered from down deep inside that he looked forward to the fantasy

During the next ten days, I not only atteh, Krista and the kids, and Davina and Astrid, I shadowedabout him distracted ive me Dad still wouldn’t talk about his divorce with Moh to knoas inside his own head

After all, I was hter We shared a very si There was nothing I could do but spend ti I kneas that I was not leaving Boston until I was one hundred percent certain Dad would be okay

As for talking to my mom, Der it, but after his phone call, I decided to be uncharacteristically cautious It turned out, in the end, it wasn’t me that forced our reunion

It was Monday, late afternoon, Dad had left for work, and I was trying to keep hts on the events of the day before, and not on anything else (say, Michael, who liked to intrude on h, Krista, Leo and Levi, Davina, and Astrid over for dinner and to watch the Sunday game

We’d laughed a lot and ate a lot, and it had been a great ti word, which led to us educating the up There ords I’d forgotten, having lost the in Delaware Like “bubbla” instead of a water fountain That was adorable How could I have forgotten that?

I’d also dared to ask about Derhout the years, but I didn’t know much about Dermot’s life at the moment

Last I’d heard he’d been dating a girl Davina not so fondly referred to as a “Masshole”—a slang word Darragh did not want his kids picking up on She apologized but not for the sentiirl came fro to hide hiether, he broke it off He was single again, living in a shitty apart everything that

While Michael moved up the ranks, my brother, who had never been very ambitious, seemed content to remain a police officer It sounded like reatest tier, I was the one he caain, I hadn’t been there when he needed me