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Chapter 38

They were going to take a cab to Theo’s apartment building, at which point Ric would get his car from where he’d left it, before going to hospital to check on Ethan and then on to work.

“What’s wrong?” Ric had asked, coming into the living room.

“That.” Theo had pointed to the TV, and the reporter who was in the midst of telling the audience about a police-involved shooting the previous evening. “Now everyone’s going to know.”

“Know what?” Ric had said when the story ended. “They didn’t say where it occurred, for starters, and your name wasn’t mentioned. You’re ‘the man’ that Mr. Chadwick was about to kill when the cops intervened.”

“I know, but…”

“There aren’t any pictures of your building, which is a good thing. My guess would be Kane or Lieutenant Archer had something to do with that. Probably a trade-off for Kane’s being interviewed about what happened.”

“So I guess Mom won’t find out unless I tell her.”

“Are you going to?”