Chapter 34: Chapter 34

Dez sighed. “Okay, ginger. I guess that means we have five more minutes…”

So he lay there, wondering about these projects the inspector wanted to hand him. Crime prevention schemes, maybe? A liaison with community groups? Oh, he’d quite like the chance to be a liaison to the LGBTQ community. The force actually took this stuff seriously now. They put a rainbow on the cars that worked at the Pride parade. Hell, maybe this year he’d walk in his uniform in the local Pride. He’d never done so before and had fallen for the nonsense about acceptance coming easier if you didn’t make a big deal out of it.

That wasn’t acceptance, it was avoidance. The same as he’d been practicing for the past few months. Avoiding the psychiatrist to avoid talking about the truth of that day. And that caused him to avoid going back to work, because he feared having to go back on different terms, letting people think he wasn’t the man he had been before.