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Kat had been twenty-then her father died—too young, for sure But Brandon Phelps had lost his father when he was only sixteen
Was it any wonder he clung so strongly to his mother?
It was late when Kat reached her aparth police stations kept hours She looked up the phone nu her NYPD title and figuring to leave a e for Detective Schwartz, but the dispatcher threw her a curve
“Hold on Joe is here I’ll connect you”
Two rings later, “This is Detective Joseph Schwartz How may I help you?”
Polite
Kat gave her na man named Brandon Phelps came to see me today”
“Wait, didn’t you say you were NYPD?”
“Yes”
“So Brandon visited you in New York City?”
“Right”
“Are you a friend of the fa?”
“No”
“I don’t understand”
“He thinks his ,” Kat said
“Yeah, I know”
“So he wanted me to look into it”
Schwartz sighed “Why the hell would Brandon go to you?”
“You sound like you know him”
“Of course I know hio to you?”
Kat wasn’t sure howactivities or the fact that she was frequenting a dating site “I’m not sure, but he said he first asked you for help Is that true?”
“It is”
“I know his clai whether we can do so to put his mind at ease”
“Detective Donovan?”
“Call me Kat”
“Okay, callto think how to put this” He took a moment Then: “I would say that you haven’t been told the full story”
“So why don’t you fill me in?”
“I have a better idea, if you don’t mind,” he said “Why don’t you take a drive up to Greenwich in the ?”
“Because it’s far”
“It’s only forty ht benefit both of us I’m here until noon”
• • •
Kat would have driven up, there and then, but she’d had tooshe would wait until after the traffic eased, headed over to yoga class Aqua, as always there before the first student arrived, never showed The students mumbled, concerned One student, a too-skinny older woman, decided to lead the class, but it didn’t take The students slowly dispersed Kat waited around a fewAqua would show He didn’t
Figuring most of the traffic had cleared out, Kat rented a Zipcar at nine fifteen The ride, as advertised, took forty minutes