After she and Declan left to go to our favourite neighbourhood restaurant, the Chimney, for pizza, I took a tray to the bedroom and Zack and I had dinner for two. He finished his soup – a good sign – but refused seconds, and I didn’t push it.I cleaned up our dishes and when I came back, Zack was on his BlackBerry. I went out in the hall and made a call of my own. Nadine was touchingly grateful when I offered to pick her up at the airport and introduce her to Mieka, who, as far as any of us knew, was the person who’d spent the most time with Abby in the days immediately before her death. I hung up feeling relieved that I’d made the effort. When I came into our bedroom and told Zack, he was less sanguine. “There are two sides to this case, Ms. Shreve,” he said, “and you’re stepping over the line.”“It’s a very small step,” I said. “I’m simply extending the same courtesy to Nadine that we’d extend to anyone coming to Regina.”“Maybe,” Zack said, “but I’m guessing Darryl Colby isn’t going to be any happier about this female bonding than I am.”“That’s a problem for tomorrow,”
