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Pro’s mouth became a tight line. “Because you are always defending him. He twists you around his little finger—”
Elisha waved dismissively at her daughter. “You don’t really think he did it, do you?”
“We can’t be sure of anything until we question him,” Chu explained calmly.
“Mother, we don’t know Max. We don’t know the kind of man he’s become.”
“I know your father, Pro,” Elisha said, rising to her full height. “He wouldn’t harm anyone.”
“Well, so far,” Chu said, “he’s released himself from two pairs of handcuffs. One at the scene and one here.”
Elisha moved toward the window that looked upon her ex-husband. “Oh, he just does that to stay in practice. It doesn’t mean anything.”
“There you go,” Pro snarled. “The great Max Marvell can do no wrong.”
“It does make him a flight risk, Elisha,” Chu said. “We take that pretty seriously.”
“Let me speak to him, please,” Elisha said.
Chu rubbed his forehead in annoyance. “I think we are going to have to reassign this case to detectives who are less personally involved.”
“Please, Tom,” she repeated.
Chu moved to the buzzer and gestured to the door.
“You’re not going to let her?” Pro burst out.
“She’s his ex-wife and the mother of his child,” Chu considered with a shrug, then turned to Elisha. “But remember, I can hear everything you say.”
He hit the buzzer and Elisha went in. Chu turned a dial on a small speaker and it crackled in response.
“Elisha!” Max said and rose from the chair. She opened her arms and he took her in a hug.
“Seems like they still like each other,” Chu observed.
“She always defended him,” Pro grumbled, her arms folded. “Even after the way he ran off and all. She just loses any sense when she’s with him.”
The pair in the interrogation room separated and Max held her at arm’s length. “Look at you. You look great, as always.”
“Thank you, sir,” Elisha said, her face lighting up from the look in Max’s eyes. She moved a hand to his temple and wove her fingers through the gray hair. “You finally stopped dying it. I like it. You look very distinguished.”
Max shrugged. “More like extinguished. I am over sixty. I decided it was time.”
“I keep forgetting how much older you are than me,” Elisha said with a smirk.
“Not that much, young lady. But look at you. You’ve kept your figure, and I like what you’ve done with your hair. Here, sit, sit.”
Max gestured to the chair across from where he’d been sitting as if he were meeting her for lunch instead of in a locked room in the middle of a police station.
“So what are you doing here? Why were you with the man who died?”
“I can’t talk about it until Mark gets here.”
“You called Mark?” Elisha chuckled with delight. “I haven’t seen him since our final divorce settlement. I always liked him.”
“I didn’t know who else to call.”
“But you still haven’t told me why you’re in New York.”
