Detective Pat by Brian C. Perry

Author:Brian C. Perry [Perry, Brian C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-05-28T11:00:00+00:00

Kaleigh pinched the bridge of her nose and let out a long sigh. “You know… I envy you for how your life has turned out so far. I’m not saying you’re lucky, like, your family sounds terrible and I hope horrible things happen to your parents.”

“Um. Thank you.”

“Don’t mention it. But we’ve both got these big, controlling looming things in our lives, right? You’ve gotten away from your big looming thing. It’s still there, casting a shadow over your life, to be sure, but you’re moving away from it towards something new. Whether it’s tedious Iowa police work or finding Paolo Giovani, which, honestly, you clearly find way more exciting than is probably healthy.”

“You can tell huh?”

“You think you’re an action hero and you get this look on your face when… You know, never mind. The point is you’re moving in a direction you’ve chosen. The further forward I move, the less I feel like I have any kind of control, and the more I wish I’d done more with what I used to have. You follow?”

“You wish things were more like they used to be?”

“Not even. Like, I always knew that my future was inevitable. Even when my father was working so hard to save me from it, we sort of understood that I was going to have to come to terms with it eventually. I still don’t think I have. Like, the closer I get to becoming the mother of the greatest generation, I don’t get any more used to the idea. In fact it only becomes more apparent that I am completely unprepared for pretty much every aspect of what I’m expected to do. I’m coming less to terms with it the closer I get. If I wanted things to change, I wouldn’t want them to be the way they were, I would want things to be the way I thought they were at the time.”

“You may have lost me there.”

She unfolded the crumpled up piece of paper and pointed to one of the male figures. “This one’s my dad,” taller, less hair, glasses, “and this one’s his protégé. Evan.”

“Evan like ‘Evan Sanz’ Evan?”

“Exactly. He was the original Sanz. My father’s genius student, closest friend, and the eponymous prototype for the elite bodyguards. When I was real little he was my father’s right-hand man. They worked on genetics and bio-mechanics projects together, would debate politics and ethics late into the night, you almost never saw one without the other being at least in the next room. He was basically a part of our family. He ate with us, played with me and Sam and Maya. I distinctly remember being convinced, when I was about eight years old, that I would marry him and we would live happily ever after like we were in some kind of ridiculous storybook.”

“Sounds like a happy time.”

“Yeah, I would have said so at the time, since I didn’t know any better. And that’s exactly what my father was trying for. He wanted

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.