Hornets Nest (1997) by Patricia - Andy Brazil 01 Cornwell

Author:Patricia - Andy Brazil 01 Cornwell [Cornwell, Patricia - Andy Brazil 01]
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-12-19T00:39:57.812000+00:00

Chapter Fourteen.

^f^ There were many shoe boxes in Rosa's closet, ^ flf'Q and West and Brazil went through all of '\ them.They found no drugs, the boyfriend was evicted, and Rosa was rewarded with instant gratification.West and Brazil headed back to their car.Brazil felt they had accomplished a good thing.That rotten, stinking, besotted old man was out of there.The poor woman would have some peace.She was safe.

"I guess we got rid of him," Brazil commented with pride.

"She was just scaring him, like she does once a week," West replied.

"They'll be back together by the time we drive off."

She started the engine, watching the old boyfriend in her rearview mirror. He was standing on the sidewalk, carrying his things, staring at the dark blue Crown Victoria, waiting for it to disappear.

"One of these days he'll probably kill her," West added.

She hated domestic cases.Those and dog bite reports were the most unpredictable and dangerous to the police.Citizens called the cops, and then resented the intervention.It was all very irrational.But perhaps the worst feature of people like Rosa and their boyfriends was the co dependency the inability to do without the other, no matter how many times partners brandished knives and guns, slapped, stole, and threatened.West had a difficult time dealing with people who wallowed in dysfunction, and went from one abusive relationship to the next, never gaining insight, and hurting life.It was her opinion that Brazil should not live with his mother.

"Why don't you get an apartment, and be on your own for once?"West said to him.

"Can't afford it."Brazil typed on the MDT.

"Sure you can."

"No, I can't."He typed some more.

"A one-bedroom apartment in a decent neighborhood is about five hundred a month."

"So?"West looked over at him.

"And your car is paid for, right?You owe any money to Davidson?"

It wasn't any of her business.

"You could afford it," West preached on.

"What you got is a sick relationship.You don't get away from her, you'll grow old together."

"Oh really?"Brazil looked up at West, not appreciating her remarks in the least.

"You know all about it, do you?"

"I'm afraid so," West said.

"In case you haven't figured it out yet, Andy, you aren't the first person in the world to have a co dependent enabling relationship with a parent or spouse.Your mother's crippling, self-destructive disease is her choice. And it serves one important function.It controls her son.She doesn't want you to leave, and guess what?So far you haven't."

W This was also Hammer's problem, although she had yet to face it fully. Seth, too, was a cripple.When his powerful, handsome wife breezed in with her trophy in the early morning hours, he was surfing hundreds of cable channels made possible by his eighteen-inch satellite dish on the back porch. Seth liked country western music, and was looking for just the right band. It was not true that he was eating a Tombstone pizza.That had been earlier, when it had gotten to be midnight and his wife still was not home.Now he was working on popcorn drenched with real butter he had melted in the microwave.

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