The other detectives rib him about working overtime, but since Tess dumped him, he doesn’t have anything better to do. “He loves the uniform,” says Backyard. “I get hard just thinking about how much he loves it,” says Pradko. Holly, though, never says anything, only lifts her dark gaze from her paperwork to consider him. “She’s spooky,” Tess said after she met Holly. Tess would have pitied Holly if Victor had explained, which is why he hadn’t.