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I felt my body relax.
Thank God.
Ada’s lips pursed, denied the gory details.
“Ever shot anyone?” she pressed, relentless, handing him the gravy.
“Yeah.”
Ada’s face brightened.
My breath stuck at the thought of Eddie shooting someone. He always seemed like a dangerous, badass guy, but shooting someone took it to a new level.
I looked at him out of the corners of my eyes and could see he was being polite, but didn’t want to talk about it. Then again, who’d want to talk about shooting someone, even a bad someone, even if you were a dangerous, badass guy?
Ada opened her mouth to say something else and I interrupted her, “Ada, honey, maybe you and Eddie can talk about shooting people after we eat.”
Her mouth snapped shut in frustration. Eddie’s hand went under the table and he ran his fingers up the side of my thigh.
I guessed that was his way of saying a silent thank you.
I had to admit, I liked it.
Ada tried a different tact, “Do the police still do those ride-alongs, you know, where they take civilians on patrol?”
Eddie looked at me again then he started to cut into his steak.
“Sure,” he answered.
Ada bumped into Mom on cloud nine and then she went for the gold. “Do they take senior citizens? I’m eighty-one, but I swear, I have the reflexes of a sixty year old.”
I stopped with a fork full of steak, potatoes and gravy halfway to my mouth, wanting to see how Eddie got out of this and not about to help him this time.
“Probably not,” he replied honestly, not pausing in his eating.
He chewed and swallowed.
Ha! He was stymied and buying time.
“But I’ll arrange for you to have a tour of the station if you want,” he finished.
Ada’s face broke into a smile.
“Do you think they would fingerprint me?” she asked. “You know, just for the heck of it?”
“No problem,” Eddie told her.
Ada looked like she’d died and gone to heaven. Cloud nine a distant memory, she was on cloud twelve and sitting next to God. “That would be grand,” she breathed.
Wonderful.
Now Eddie was doing favors for my friends. I’d never be able to pay him back and get him out of my life.
“Ada’s addicted to those cop shows,” Mom explained.
Eddie smiled just as the buzzer rang.
“I’ll get it,” I said, because Mom was transfixed watching Eddie smile.
