"I didn’t say that. For what it’s worth, I like you. Liked you I mean." This wasn’t going to be as easy as she’d hoped. Alice had thought seeing him would fill her with rage, make the line between cop and criminal clear. Instead, like a puppy reunited with its master, she was happy. Part of it was their tangled history, but more just being out again, arguing and talking, the push and pull of a normal life.