PsyCop 4: Secrets by Jordan Castillo Price

Author:Jordan Castillo Price [Price, Jordan Castillo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mm
Publisher: JCP Books LLC
Published: 2011-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

Given that Carolyn couldn’t lie, I’d have to take that at face value. I looked at Jacob. He’d planted his elbows on the table and steepled his fingers. He looked more like our arch-nemesis than my boyfriend. “What are those limits, exactly?” he asked.

“Three,” Lisa said quickly. Too quickly. Jacob didn’t usually make her nervous, but she’d never been under his microscope before.

“How often?”

“Three a day.”

“And a day begins, when?”

“Holy crap, Jacob,” I broke in, “she’s on our side.” He smiled…like a shark. “I was only making sure I understood the ground rules.” Carolyn stifled the word, “Right,” and turned it into a cough.

I said, “The day begins when she wakes up and ends when she goes to bed. And naps don’t count.” I looked at Lisa. Her eyes were gigantic. “Does that sound okay to you?” She nodded.

Jacob stood and made eye contact with each of us, still smiling. If he was disappointed that she’d cut him off at three, he sure didn’t look it.

Then again, what if I had three si-nos at my disposal each and every day? I could be a Super PsyCop. The thought of that made me queasy.

“Carolyn and I would appreciate it if you two would stick around for another hour or so,” he said. “We need to determine the best use of our questions.”

“Is that all right with you?” I asked Lisa.

She nodded again. She must not have trusted herself to speak.

“We’ll go talk to Irene and meet you in 304 after you’re done eating,” said Jacob. He pulled out Carolyn’s chair for her as she stood, the motion so smooth that I almost didn’t realize I’d only seen it performed in black and white movies.

Carolyn looked as if she was accustomed to such treatment. She also looked vaguely worried. But then again, she usually did. Lisa and I didn’t say a word, hardly even dared to breathe, until they’d both left the room. “Oh my God,” she whispered. “Maybe three was too much. Maybe I should have said one.”

Maybe she shouldn’t have even come back to Chicago. I’ll bet that’s what she was really thinking. “You told them you’d do three. Try it, and see how it feels.”

“Okay,” she said, “you’re right. I’ll try.”

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