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“Stop it,” Dahlia said. “Don’t go there again. He gives us all the same amount of attention, but you refuse to believe that.”
“Chase gets the most,” she said.
“Because they talk about work. Nothing more than that,” Jasmine said. “And if you want to say more, then email them like the rest of us.”
“Sounds like you email them daily,” she said.
“Since Cori was born I try to,” Jasmine said. “They like the pictures and updates. Sometimes it’s nothing more than a few sentences at the end of the day.”
“Do you email Mom daily?” she asked Dahlia.
“No. I don’t have that much to say. I try to send one twice a week.”
“And you’ve got a reminder in your calendar to do it, right?” she asked.
“As I said, I don’t have much to report. It’s not asking much to do that. How often do you do it?”
She shrugged. “Maybe once a week.”
“There you go. Do it more if you want. You heard Mom. They read them after dinner together,” Dahlia said. “I’m going back to work.”
Dahlia walked out of the room and she was left there with Jasmine. “You think I’m being a baby, don’t you?”
“No. I think you just need more than the rest of us. That doesn’t make you a bad person. It just makes you different.”
“That’s me,” she said. “Different and needy.”
“Someone has to be,” Jasmine said, putting her arm around Ivy’s shoulders. “Might as well be you.”
12
Never A Problem
At the end of a long day of dead ends, Brooks went back to his office to finish typing up what he’d found on several cases he was working on.
A big fat zero, but he had to document everything he’d done.
He walked in around six thirty, the same time Luke Remington was moving around the room and getting his orders for the night shift.
“Hey, Brooks,” Luke said. “How’s it going?”
“Not bad,” he said. “You?”
“Just getting started and you look ready to call it a night.”
“Not yet,” he said. “I’ve got a few more hours of work.”
“Which you could do from home,” someone shouted at him. “Unlike the rest of us.”
He turned his head and smirked at the trooper who’d said that. “I was in your shoes not that long ago.”
Brooks continued to his office. He should have been done an hour ago, but he’d gotten called out to a scene. Just another case he’d take on. He had to open the case report there and that was what he was going to focus on. He’d type up the rest of his day tomorrow. He didn’t want to forget any detail, which was why he took such good notes when he was out and about.
He took his jacket off and put it behind his chair. His office mate, Bruce, looked to be gone for the day. At least he’d get some peace and quiet for a bit.
He pulled his email up first and scanned it looking for anything that needed his attention right away. Some had to do with cases but nothing that couldn’t wait.
The one from Ivy Greene that came in earlier caught his eye.
