`` you can hold your own too , you know ? '' we 're going downhill , toward the cove . '' was n't that what she wanted him to know ? but he had never seen any pictures . the question was , could he control the want long enough to get to know her ? `` your dog having one ball , '' tara teases him . in the background the officers eagle eye had spotted a vaguely familiar face with a wound dressing to one side of his nose . 