They stood at the door, both hesitant to enter. Bobby unlocked his apartment and followed Alex inside. She'd hardly said a word since leaving the squad room.
He took her coat. "Make yourself comfortable. Are you hungry?"
"I don't know." She opened his refrigerator, stared into it for a long minute, and closed it again.
"I'll make us some pasta." He started filling a pot.
She wandered into the other room. While he was cutting lettuce into a salad bowl she quietly reappeared at his side. "Thanks for letting me cuff Mulrooney. He... uh..."
Bobby wrapped his arms around her. "He never deserved you. He never knew you."
He'd expected her tears, but his own took him by surprise.
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