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He’d never cared more

“Tressa lost it when Sydney Gardner showed up at her door last night, asking questions about night up”

“Did Levi have any nightmares recently that you know of?”

“That sounds, Ms Hamilton, like a professional question, not a friend one”

She sat with her hands clasped together on her cute little oak kitchen table—a set for thich was all that would fit in the small space

When she didn’t say anything, he pulled out the seat opposite her Far enough that he could scoot down, lean back and look as though he didn’t have a care in the world, without bu

“Let ,” she said when he’d assu at her It occurred to him, as he waited for her to continue, that he could bechin and arainst his chest When Levi had found out that he had to go to his mother’s for the weekend

“I made a call, as any concerned citizen should do, whenthatonly what I’d been told, and nothingup”

“Obviously you told whoever you called that you’d had Levi’s case, but closed the investigation”

“I did not”

He wasn’t sure what to do with that

“Thea social worker,” she continued after he’d grown greatly uncomfortable with the silence

“So you didn’t tell your coworker about Levi’s case”

“I did not”

Okay, then,