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He hoped.
“Colson!”
“What?” he asked, snapping his head around at his name.
“You’re blocking the doorway. You’re just standing there like you’ve got a stick up your ass and you aren’t sure if moving will wiggle it out or shove it in further.”
“Asshole,” he said to Frank. One of the detectives he worked with on this case.
He didn’t really have a partner now. Not a set one.
They more or less moved around helping the other.
“What’s going on?” Frank asked, moving past him into the open doorway where he’d been standing and not moving. “Struggling over painting Bella’s room pink or purple?”
He got busted on a lot when they found out he was going to be an instant dad to a preteen.
Most were helpful, but it was still in everyone’s nature to ride the other.
“She picked both,” he said. “Didn’t you hear that?”
“Yeah,” Frank said. “I did. That you did one wall one color and another wall the other so she could get a good idea of what worked.”
He smiled, remembering that day.
How he wanted to surprise Bella in the house he bought.
It was going to be her new room.
She talked about pink and purple so much, he took a guess, bought two cans, and when she walked in, loved how it was a mixture of both and asked to keep it two walls of both colors.
He still didn’t know if she didn’t want to hurt his feelings or she really liked it.
And maybe he needed that reminder of what he had at home when he was trying to develop something else.
“Sometimes it pays to fly by the seat of your pants. What’s going on here today?”
“We’ve been waiting for you. Just need to go over a few more things for the ADA.”
“Who’s on the case?” he asked.
“Stacia Robinson. She’s good. Been an ADA for a few years. Has some questions, and then will run it up the chain to the DA.”
He nodded his head.
He knew how this worked. He’d been doing it long enough.
“Let’s get to it then.”
“Stacia just had to take a call, so I ran to take a piss, then saw you standing in the doorway as if you just got brained upside the head. What’s going on with you and DA Conway?”
“What?” he asked.
“Dude. You were staring at her ass so hard when she walked down the hall I thought it was going to light on fire. Then you’d have to run and put it out.”
“That’s rude, even for you.”
“I’m just calling it like I see it.”
