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"It’s called Two and a Half Men," Deruest

"I understand," Bellenos said "Because the two brothers are grown, and the son isn’t"

"I think so," Dermot said "Don’t you think the son is useless?"

"The half? Yes At hoht around, sure I could put the clothes into the dryer ht have known he’d hearhis clothes in the dryer, but he’s responsible for getting them out I think they’ll be dry in " I made sooing to bed now" Though I’d had the nap, I was beginning to drag

I barely waited to hear Deret them," before I hurried to the back porch to toss the wet clothes into the dryer Then I went into my bedroom, shut the door, and locked it

If the rest of the fae were as casual about cannibalish to suitMonday reat way to start the week

"I need you to come to the station so I can ask a few more questions," she said, and she sounded so brisk and awake that I could easily dislike her

"I’ve told you everything I know," I said, trying to sound alert

"We’re going over everything again," she said "I know you’re as anxious as we all are to find out who caused this poor woman’s death"

There was only one possible response "I’ll be there in a couple of hours," I said, trying not to sound sullen "I’ll have to ask oing to be an issue since I was scheduled to work the later shift, but I was gru , because I think so into a police station

"That’s no good, Sis," he said "You need a lawyer?"

"No, but I’ a number with erator until I spotted the "Osiecki and Hilburn" business card I ed Just to cover all kinds of crises, I put the cluviel dor intothe blue skies, the shihteen-wheelers I was in a gried I was not cut out for a life of criha walker I hadn’t had anything to do with the death of Kym Rowe, but I’d been involved in sufficient bad stuff to make me nervous when I came under official scrutiny

Police stations are not happy places at the best of tiuilty conscience, this unhappiness is just about doubled

The heavy wo about her son, as in a cell in the building He’d been arrested for rape It wasn’t the first ti up a police report about an accident he’d been in; his ar, and he was in a fair amount of pain Two men sat silently side by side, their elbows on their knees, their heads hung Their sons had been arrested for beating another boy to death

It was a positive treat to see T-Rex colanced ht?" Under the harsh light, his dyed platinuarish but also cheerful, simply because he was such a vital person

"Yeah," I said, shaking his hand Pretty, va his own little stream of consciousness aboutmy civic duty," he said with a very small smile "Cherie and Viv already came in"

I tried to smile in a carefree way I didn’t think I was very successful "I guess we all got to help theirl," I offered

"We don’t have to enjoy it"

I was able to give hi a confession out of you?"

"I can’t keep secrets," he said "That’s est confession Seriously, I’d’ve told theht it happened T-Rex is not one for secrets"

T-Rex was one for talking about himself in the third person, apparently But he was so vivid, so full of life, that to o tell theetically, and took a step toward the

"Sure," he said "Listen, give et the feeling you ain’t been to et you a ringside seat!"

"That’s real nice of you," I said "I don’t kno much time I’ll have, between my job andaround with vampires before That Felipe, he’s pretty damn funny, and Horst is okay" T-Rex hesitated "On the other hand, your boyfriend is pretty dareed "But he didn’t murder Kym Rowe"

Our conversation ended when Detective Ambroselli called me to her desk

Cara Ambroselli was a little dynamo She asked ht, and I answered the have you been dating Eric?" (He was no longer Mr Northman, I noticed) "Did you ever work in a strip club?" (That was an easy one) "What about the men you live with?"

"What about them?"

"Doesn’t Claude Crane own a strip club?"

"Yeah," I said warily "He does"