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"She knoho did it?" Drake asked, intrigued

"No But she h"

Drake didn’t argue He could see Luka’s murder had Sully spooked If he wanted to be overcautious because he feared Jada er, Drake wouldn’t blaodfather, and he took the role seriously With Luka dead, he would do whatever he had to in order to h she wasn’t really a girl anymore, was she? The last time Drake had seen Jadranka Hzujak, she had been eleven or twelve years old In the intervening years, he had been vaguely aware that the girl had been growing up, but it had been happening so far off his radar that it was difficult to io, he and Sully had gotten together with Luka and had dinner in a little dive in Soho that looked like it hadn’t changed in decades Over dinner, Luka had e, which meant she had to be in her e of the little girl she’d been out of his mind

As the train pulled into the 79th Street station, Sully tapped Drake on the knee and got up, slipping through the standing passengers Drake followed, s woainst the side of a newsstand and waited for the train to close its doors and pull away Drake thought he was being overly cautious, but he had altered his travel plans and cootten off the plane at JFK A couple ofstill elcoame Sully wanted to wait for the platforht be trying to follow theers had scattered and the train was gone, Sully fell into step beside Drake and the two of them went up the stairs in silence Outside, the chilly autu the sidewalk and the afternoon shadows had grown longer Sully turned uptown, and Drake waited patiently until they were half a block froain

"Come on, Sully," Drake said "Patience is a virtue, but it’s never been one of ed o That’s not even close to halfway"

Drake frowned "I was never good at fractions And that’s not the point Luka is dead, and fro, it’s obvious you think whoever killed hi ht end up in a trunk with soetting myself into"

Sully shot hi breath, relenting, and glanced around tothem any extra attention, then shoved his hands in his pockets and kept his gaze forward, talking quietly

"Here’s the lon," Sully began "Maybe you remember that Jada’s mother died when she was a kid"

"Breast cancer, wasn’t it?" Drake asked

"Lungs," Sully corrected "Luka remarried a couple of years back, a woman named Olivia Jada called her the ‘wicked stepmother’ Olivia Hzujak works for a couy called Tyr Henriksen--Norwegian, I think Phoenix is mainly a weapons manufacturer, with business partners around the world, but they have a research division that keeps things pretty hush-hush"

"Why does the na a bell?" Drake asked, wary as a car slowed in his peripheral vision It turned out to be a taxi letting off a passenger, but Sully had hi at shadows "Tyr Henriksen, not the corporation"

"Thought you’d catch that," Sully replied "Henriksen’s an antiquities collector, and he doesn’t s in a shady fashion if the aboveboard approach doesn’t work"

"He’ll hire slers and thieves if he has to," Drake clarified

Sully arched an eyebrow "I know Can you i Sully was joking, but Drake didn’t think it was funny He bent the rules and sometimes he broke them, and his line of work put him into contact with some pretty unsavory characters, but he didn’t consider hio, Henriksen reached out to Luka through Olivia, trying to get him involved in a private project," Sully went on "Luka had a bad feeling about Henriksen’s proposal, I guess He did so the research Henriksen wanted, and stuh that he quit Only he didn’t really quit He kept working on the project, but for hiue"

They’d walked a couple of blocks and now came to a stop at the corner of 81st Street and Broadaiting for the light to change There was a Starbucks at the southeast corner of the intersection and Drake found hi coffee, but he kept his focus on Sully and the people around theuessed Indian or Pakistani, walked a tinyStarbucks cups and laughing together Drake didn’t see any threat, but he felt it, though he figured that was mostly the picture the day had painted thus far

"At first, all Luka would tell Jada was that Henriksen had wanted him to solve a mystery for hi priceless," Sully said "So for," Drake finished

"Looks that way, doesn’t it?" Sully asked

The light changed, and they continued north along Broadway

"So Luka wanted the treasure for hiht to me Luka wouldn’t have put himself on the line like that He loved his work and he loved his daughter, and I always had the impression he was content with that"

"No offense, Sully, but you saw Luka once every couple of years People change And even if Luka didn’t change, you can’t climb inside someone’s head and see the world the way they see it"