Chapter 2

"Serious?"

"Very."

Grissom reached for the wine and filled his glass to the rim. "How do you know?"

"She told Nicky. Nicky told War. War told me. You know how this stuff works."

"Who? When?"

"His name is Alan. He's an ER doc at the University. She met him when she went to process that domestic violence call we got over in the West Bend where the dog got shot."

"West Bend. That was only four months ago. He's already talking about marriage?" Grissom took several large gulps of wine. He felt like the walls were closing in on him. He mentally checked for the location of his migraine medicine.

"Yeah well. He's a little bit older, kind of knows what he wants."

"How much older?"

"Fourteen years."