The Investigators (Badge of Honor 7)
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“What’s that supposed to mean?” Amy flared, parrot ing, “ ‘I can’t get into that’?”
“It’s a highly confidential underway investigation.”
“And you never talk about highly confidential underway investigations to the bimbo you’re banging, right?”
“Is that what you think you are to me? Some bimbo I’m banging?”
“Don’t try to change the subject, Peter,” Amy said.
“And what am I to you, Amy?” Wohl heard himself asking, wondering where the sudden rage had come from. “A convenient stud? Once or twice a month, when the hormones get active, call the stu
d and ask if you can come over?”
“How did we get on this subject?” she asked uncomfortably. “Is that what you really think?”
“I don’t know what to think,” he said.
Amy exhaled audibly.
She met his eyes.
“What do you want me to say? That I think I’m in love with you?”
“If that were the truth, that would be a nice start.”
“My patients, I am forced to conclude, are not the only ones who try to avoid facing the truth.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“In this case, the truth I seem to have been avoiding facing is that I am in love with you.”
Peter didn’t reply.
“No response to that?” Amy asked after a long moment.
“You’re so matter-of-fact about it,” he said.
“There’s something wrong with that?” Amy asked.
Peter shook his head, “no.”
“I’ll tell you what happens now,” Amy said. “If it’s the truth, it would be a nice start if you said, ‘I love you, too, Amy.’ ”
“I love you, too, Amy.”
“Okay, step two. Now you can take off your robe and come to bed, and after we do what people in love do, step three, you tell me all about this highly confidential underway investigation you’ve got my little brother involved in.”
“Can I suggest step one-A?”
“Suggest.”
“I have a bottle of champagne in the refrigerator I’ve been saving for a suitable occasion.”
“Very good. Go get it. Perhaps this love affair of ours isn’t going to be as hopeless as logic tells me it’s going to be.”
“You think it’s hopeless?”
“We’ll have to wait and find out, won’t we, Peter?”