DC Stuart Frain sat wherever he liked.
He sat in the second chair at the kitchen table, every day, with his coat on and then with it off. He sat on the arm of the sofa in the front room with his feet on the desk. On the Thursday he sat on her bed, for a moment, to tie his shoelace, while telling her through the open door that they would be going to Kofi’s office at two, and was up again before she had decided whether to mind, and she did not think he had noticed he had done it.
He was not unkind. That was what made it hard to hold against him. He was twenty-nine, and correct, and decent, and he brought her a newspaper every morning without being asked, with her own name in it on page nine; and when Pat rang the officers’ phone on…
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