He thought that was funny cheap rolex watches so I knew everything was okay. He had forgiven me. He’s a good boy, the best I could have hoped for. I suddenly remembered my wife, Maria, and was sad that she wasn’t here to see how well Damon was turning out. You would really like Damon, Maria. I’m sorry you’re missing it.
     ‘I got your message. I’m sorry, Damon. I wish I were going to hear you tomorrow. You know I do. Can’t be discout ugg boots helped, buddy.’ Damon sighed dramatically. ‘If wishes had wings,’ he said. It was one of his grandmother’s pet sayings. I had been hearing it for years, ever since I was around his age.
     ‘Beat me, whip me, beat me,’ I told him.
     ‘Naw. It’s all right. Daddy,’ Damon said, and sighed again. ‘I know you have to work, and that it’s probably important stuff. It’s just hard for us sometimes. You uggs discount know how it is.’
     ‘I love you, and I should be there, and I won’t miss the next concert,’ I said to him.
     ‘I’ll hold you to that,’ Damon said.
     ‘I’ll hold myself to it,’ I told him.
     Chapter 24
     Iwas still at the precinct house in Brentwood at around seven-thirty that night. I was tired and finally looked up from a thick sheaf of police reports on the sadistic murders that had taken ugg boots cheap sale place in nine West Coast cities, plus the one in DC, that we knew about. The case was scaring the hell out of me, and certainly not because I believed in vampires.
     I did believe in the weird and horrible things people could sometimes do to one another: savage bites, sadistic hangings, draining blood out of bodies, tiger attacks. For once, I couldn’t begin to imagine what the killers might ugg boots on sale be like. I couldn’t profile them.  Neither could the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit. Kyle Craig had admitted as much to me. That was one reason why he was out here himself. Kyle was stumped, too. There was no precedent for this string of murders.
     Jamilla appeared at my desk around quarter to eight. She had been working down the hall. She has a very pretty face, but tonight she just ugg boots on sale looked tired. There is a simple fact of life about police work.  Adrenaline starts flowing during bad cases. It makes everybody’s feelings more intense. Attractions grow and can cause unanticipated problems. I had been there before, and maybe so had Jamilla. She acted like it. Perhaps that was why we were a little tentative around one another.