"Do you know, Valerie. What it is like to live in what if. What if I had gone with him… what if I reached Iris first… what if I saw Iris in the road camera first… what if…what if." Jeffery had unloaded all the things that he had kept inside him all these years.

The tears rolled down from each of the eyes, even when he tried to stop them. This wasn't the hardened police veteran that welcomed me in his house. This is a broken friend living his life in regrets. Valerie let him vent all his anguish when he did, calmed down Valerie asked that was bugging her.