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"He left thea search warrant for his apartet in there first," Pete said

"Why me?" she asked softly

"Oh, Katie! Such a pretty, sweet thing! But he loves you, so…this is really the revenge I wanted With Tanya, it was perfect-he had ry There’s motive for you! And…he cared about her, but not the way he cares about you That’s too perfect That’s real revenge!"

"Pete, Pete, think, you’re a cop, they’ll knoas you now!"

He laughed "I’m a cop, yes And that’s the point We’ve co tree, and now it can all rest The past will really be avenged And as to my position, it’s perfect And I am the best! I’ve served this city I’ve been firest drug lords to darken our door And now, ed Now, once Beckett is dead and he’s history-a vicious killer brought down by the descendant of the ed-I’ll make history myself I’ll take the chief’s place in a few years And, in tiovernor, you’ll see My life is bigger than this small island It’s my destiny to carry out the curse That’s hoerful I really am!"

He was serious Dead serious That was perhaps theaspect of it all He believed that he had been wronged He probably had been a good cop-other than being a psychomy brother?" she asked

"Katie O’Hara! You don’t know your history Your brother’s death adds so uessed An O’Hara was on the jury that denounced my ancestor, did you know that? An O’Hara helped deliver a death sentence So, well, I just hadn’t expected quite this much justice, but it’s all fallen in nicely" He lifted her head for her, twisting it so that she could see clearly

She winced, trying not to cry out

Sean looked like an oversize doll He’d been set up in a stand He was lolled against it, still unconscious He earing Tanzler’s hat Sean was tall and broad-shouldered It must have irritated Pete that he couldn’t possibly shove Sean into Carl Tanzler’s

"Katie!"

She heard the soft whisper Bartholo by her side Behind hi, Katie Work your left wrist We’re trying…we’re trying"

She soing to join the flew across the rooun out He fired shots into the wall, then he turned to face the dark corridor that led to the room

"Beckett! I know that you’re out there!" Dryer warned "Show yourself-or I’ll shoot her in the kneecaps long before I put her out of her o unnoticed by law enforcement," David’s voice called from the darkness beyond

"You ass! I’ll do it!" Pete said

David moved into view He didn’t look at Katie She was certain that he didn’t dare

She felt

"Shoot me, Pete-isn’t that your plan?" David asked

Pete raised his gun "Yes, it is"

He fired

But David wasn’t there There was a sound of exploding glass Katie dimly realized that he had taken a mirror from one of the exhibits Pete had shot at his reflection

So into the rooht Pete right in the chest, slaun fly-and crash into the floor

Soed her

She wrenched her wrist free Halfway up, she started tearing at the other tie herself

"Don’t! David, there’s another-"

"Trip wire, I know!" he shouted back to her

Pete Dryerdown for it himself Pete was closer

He almost reached it

But someone else was there

Not Bartholomew Not Tanya, or Stella

She was Bartholomew’s lady in white, the broken-hearted Lucinda, and she used a foot that was clad in a delicate white slipper to send the gun sliding farther back in the rooered up, ready to fly for the gun again

But David was in a fury He tackled Pete, bringing hi his nose, chin and forehead into a hard thud against the wood He slaain, then jerked up to his feet, and slid back down to reach the gun

He caught it

Pete staggered up David had the gun on hie, but wavered

"Don’t make me shoot you, Pete Don’t," David said

Pete’s nose was bleeding profusely He was bleeding froo for David, and he didn’t go for the gun

Heafter him