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Pro nodded “Okay, I won’t ask hi Give me just two minutes to tell him off”

Chu exhaled heavily “All right, but I’ you, and if you step out of line, you’re outta there and off the case”

“Thanks, Tom,” Pro said, and she walked to the door Chu hit a button, a buzzer went off, and she stepped in

The handsome older man looked up from the manacles which held him to the table He didn’t attempt to rise

“Puhted as Pro walked in

She leaned across the table from him and looked down at her father “Don’t you call ht to call me that”

The beardedin his eyes “It’s what I called you when you were a kid You loved it”

Pro sat “I’m not a kid anymore, Max”

“Okay,” he shrugged “But here you are—a detective It seeraduated the police academy”

“Which you didn’t attend,” Pro fumed

“I didn’t want to be in the way It was your day—yours and Joe’s I didn’t want to come between you two”

“As I recall, you were also busy getting married to—which one was that? Mrs Marvell number five or was it six?”

“That was Judy,” Max snorted “Not one of my better choices”

“Sounds like she was the first one since Mom that didn’t have a name like a stripper”

“I can’t believe you are still angry over Trixie after all these years I divorced her…”