The mingling wasn’t going well. Normally Kiko could easily strike up a conversation with people, but between his mood, which was still a little low after listening to Karen die, and the fact that most people who were keen to engage with him seemed to want him to talk about her last moments, he was not having a good time of it. Dom stuck a little closer to him than was strictly necessary, and they both avoided Gordon. Secretly Kiko suspected the police were always a bit more wary of trusting him for being gay, for being the only person of color in such a very white town, for being a man who ran a niche business that attracted children. He’d never really been in trouble with the police here in Mount Angus, but all the same he tried not to get in their way.
Except when he and Dom were trying
