“I’ll say you’re not. The way you’re acting, a person would think you were breaking a murder case.”
I could have bitten my tongue off as soon as I’d said it. The look on his face told me everything I needed to know. “How did you know there’d been a murder, Lam?”
“Has there?”
“That’s what you said.”
“Don’t be silly. I told you you were going through as much agony as though there had been a murder.”
“That isn’t exactly what you said.”
“The hell it isn’t.”
“You know it isn’t.”
“I know it is. I was merely using a figure of speech anyway. But that’s no sign you can’t tell me.”
“We’ll talk about something else until we get to Las Vegas.”