章 12: Chase

Even though I was mostly joking about the Murder Steak’n Shake, I get to the Nite’s Inn half an hour early so that I can be extra sure she’s not in the parking lot alone. It’s not that Overland Park is a bad place—for the most part, it’s an extremely safe suburb—but I dug around some more at work today and found out that the Nite’s Inn is extremely popular with truckers and construction workers, due to its proximity to the highway, low rates, and plethora of prostitutes.

I tell myself that it’s my normal cop instinct that wants to keep Livia safe from rough, violent men in the parking lot—I want to keep all civilians safe, because it’s what I’ve taken an oath to do. It’s the right thing to do.

I mean, I certainly would do this for any person I was meeting at an hourly motel to impregnate.