Our Promise

he was pointing. He followed, huddled i

om the south and then he

rtheast stained pink in the morning sun. Cars were backed up along John Nolan Drive, in part due to morning traffic, but also because of a heavy contingent of

a mass of leafless gray trees, but she knew it sheltered some fairly

e?" She shaded her eyes against the mo

e down to Squaw Bay. Beyond that's Mud Lake, Waubesa, and the

tracks from he

ll come from down by the bridge from the south

but they were being slowly being distorted by the wind, the depressions filling in with snow. She remember

o Mike. "CSU get

her movements as she circled back to the bo

the guy who called it in?

h. B

two officers. "You two wait for the

ach other and some silent communication passed between them. The one with the frozen face began the long walk toward the vans, eliciting a flurry of activity from the news crews. The

ad in? I'm about as fro

ed him to follow her and started back to where she'd parked her ca

g have you bee

be my thi

is?" She grinned at Mike, watching him walk gingerly across the snow-

ril and then happy for about a month in the summe

rena glanced at the news crews, now fully engaged

hat dog track south, see where it goes, o

for the heat to kick in. Even though she'd grown up in Wisconsin, her feet still got cold no matter what type of high

Sparks for a partner, much worse. He'd accepted her as an equal from the start and despite the peculiarities of

he force. She was viewed as incompetent by some or worse, thought of as someone's girlfriend, using whatever me

nd sometimes the comments, whispered behind her back, but just loud enough for her to hear, had her gritting her teeth and clenching her fists. All that got under her ski

king behind her back, she knew she'd just come off as defensive or bitchy and it woul

p. Madison was built on an isthmus, a narrow stretch of land between two lakes. She was pretty sure the g

. As the state's capital, the Capitol building dominated the narrowest point of the isthmus. The streets were arranged in alternating directions surrounding the square. Further complicating traffic patterns were the angled streets that r

ecinct was located on the north side of the isthmus, on the shores of Lake Mendota, the much larger sister to Lake Monona. The wind swept across the lake, a

the first time she'd walked through these doors as a detective over six months ago s

ll, jogging up to the third floor, working to get the blood flowing to her

ug of coffee. She pulled the hat from her head, her hair crackling with static, strands that had escaped her ponytail sticking to her face. She pushed them b

here before me?" Serena peeled off her glove

d driving." He smiled at her, that slow laz

cost of better-than-average coffee and guarded the stash as if it were gold. It was one of the things they discovered they shared, along with a love for reading good books and watching bad horror

aughed through horror movies. Now you.

me much good if I was blindfolded, would it? But ye