Page 100 of Family Bonds- Jarrett & Andi

“I know,” he said.

“We told Corie that there was no money. That Colleen had blown through Luke’s policies traveling and that she had debt.That sinceColleen wasn’t working at the time she had no life insurance policy herself. Corie seemed to believe it.”

“I’ll never understand people,” he said.

“You know as well as I do that you come across plenty of people like that in our line of work.”

“Unfortunately. When are you telling Andi?”

“I was going to call her tonight. Are you going to be with her?”

“It wasn’t planned,” he said. “But she might want me to be afterward.”

At least he hoped so.

“Then I know she’ll be fine. I’m not sure if she’ll be upset. I don’t think so.”

“You’re not worried enough to not do it though,” he said.

Jack sighed. “I can’t walk away from her just because you’re in her life, Jarrett. That means nothing to me and I’m sure you don’t want to hear it, but it’s the truth. I’m going out on a limb with you and I’m doing it because my gut says I can trust you.”

“You can,” he said.

“Andi says it all the time. That you’re so much like her father. That might be part of the reason I’m doing things the way that I am.”

It was hard to say anything negative to that statement.

“I appreciate it,” he said.

“Maybe you can return the favor,” Jack said. “If I text you a few places I’m looking at in Boston, can you give me an idea of what it’s like there? Neighborhood, commute getting in and out of the city. Things like that?”

“Sure,” he said. “If you don’t like any of them I can reach out to a family member who owns rental properties there. Homes and apartment complexes and see if they’ve got anything.”

“That’d be better, if you don’t mind. I’m flying by the seat of my pants lining things up and going on recommendations from people. I lucked out here that I got a good recommendation, but when I moved to Denver I ended up in a shitty place. The location was good, but the landlords were horrible.”

“You send me what you’ve got and I’ll let you know if I can come up with anything.”

“Thanks,” Jack said and then hung up.

Jarrett grabbed his jacket and left the office. He needed to talk to someone and the only one who knew everything was Mac.

He texted his brother when he got in his SUV and then showed up at the police station and walked into Mac’s office without stopping at the desk.

They knew him and never would block him unless Mac was talking with someone else.

“What’s going on?” Mac asked when he shut the door and sat down in the chair across from Mac.

“This feels creepy,” he said. “I used to sit here when Dad was in your seat.”

Mac laughed. “I know. Pretty great now, isn’t it?”

His older brother would think that. “Only because it’s your chair now.”

Mac tilted his head. “Did you think you would have wanted to sit here? I never got that impression.”

“No,” he said quickly. “I knew it’d always be you. We all did. I thought I’d like it in Boston and working bigger crimes than on the island.”

“But you soon realized it wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be,” Mac said. “I knew when I left the island, I’d come back. Alex the same.”

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