“Mother, are you forgetting something?” he asked. “You know, your partner who is supposed to be learning from you in the field?”
Oh, Jesus.
“Son, you were having a day off with the wife and baby. I thought you’d prefer to be at home,” she admitted when he was absolutely right.
She had forgotten him.
That might be a first, since she never dropped a ball, but then again, it could be her subconscious trying to keep her son safe, and not near her job.
As she said that, there was a pause.
Then, Koda went there.
“In a haunted house, Mother?”
She snorted.
He was her son.
Her kidsRARELYcalled her mother. It was more or less to either annoy her, or show that they, themselves, were annoyed. He dropped it twice now.
That said it all.
“I’m sorry. I’m on a crime scene. I can’t talk. I shouldn’t have to since I’m the boss, but all of you seem to forget that.”
There was silence.
That told her all she needed to know.
She made Koda feel left out, and she shouldn’t have done that to him.
So, she gave in.
“Your father is heading back home tonight. Then, he’s coming here in the morning. Join him. We won’t be doing much investigating tonight. I don’t have DNA, and I can’t determine male or female without it. So you’re not missing anything but the scene of the crime.”
Since this was a video call, he was staring at her.
“Son?” she asked.
He went there.
“What do we have?”
Corbin actually laughed, and so did Ethan, who was taking in the scene to begin profiling it.
Elizabeth blinked.
“That’s my line.”
Oh, he was aware, but when you were dealing with the mother of all Feds, who didn’t get conned or missed a beat, you had to play dirty.
“Oliver smiled today.”
She gasped.
“Did you get pictures?” she asked.
He went there and did her dirty.
