Secrets[PsyCop 04] by Jordan Castillo Price

Author:Jordan Castillo Price [Secrets]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-11-17T08:32:09+00:00

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Jordan Castillo Price

enough, you’re a precog. Here’s all I know: if you really want to set some limits on the si-no, I will back you up. I promise.”

Lisa lowered her hands. Her chin trembled.

“Cripes, don’t start crying,” I said. “Were you really ever a cop?” She cracked a smile. “You know I was.”

“That won’t change just because your Psych secret’s out of the bag. How many questions are you comfortable answering? Ten? Twenty?”

“It feels fake to pick a number out of the air and say that’s all I can do.”

“I get that. But if you start making an exception for every worthy cause, you’ll burn yourself out. I don’t have a long chat with every ghost I see, then hunt down their families and make sure they all know where the silverware is buried. I can’t do it. There aren’t enough hours in the day. So pick a number, arbitrary or not, and for Christ’s sake, stick to it.” Lisa chewed on her lower lip and thought. “How about three?” Wow. That seemed pretty strict. “It’s up to you.”

She nodded. “Three. That way it’ll be like three wishes.” I stood and offered her a hand up. She took it and gave it an extra squeeze before she let go. The contact felt…natural. “How are you going to break it to them?” I nodded toward the cafeteria. “You’ve got to be careful how you word it.”

“I think if I say, ‘I will answer three si-nos’ that it wouldn’t be a lie. The lying would only come in if I said that was all I could do.”

“Okay, that sounds like it’ll work. It’s the questions you don’t plan for that’ll bite you in the ass, though. You need a catch-all way to redirect Carolyn. Think of it now before she puts you on the spot.”

“I could shrug.”

“Good plan.” She could also answer a question with a question, but I figured I’d save that tactic for myself. Even though it was painfully obvious what we were doing, it still seemed a little more natural if we didn’t both hedge in the exact same way.

Jacob and Carolyn both watched us thread around the tables and make our way back to where we’d been sitting. “Here’s the deal,” I said, my eye on Carolyn. “You’re all for Psych rights. So you have to respect Lisa’s limits.”

Carolyn glared down at her food. She’d mounded it into four distinct quadrants: greenish, brownish, orange and beige. “I wasn’t exploiting her. I only asked her how much she could do.”

Secrets: a PsyCop Novel

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