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Sex Just sex First sex Ahen the clothing was strewn and the pinnacle reached…

But it wasn’t He came up on an elbow, and his smile was deep His features were really ed, never pretty, and yet…beautiful

"U for," she whispered

"We didn’t wait that long," he said, s at her

"Seems like forever," she said softly

"Thank you And…obviously, the point now is not to instantly juht if I tell you you are really aly beautiful and certainly, anyone could wait a lifeti with hiet to Ireland in your travels?" She teased "Kiss the Blarney stone?"

He stroked her hair, looked into her eyes "Never," he assured her He held her against hiroell"

"You’ve really got to quit referring to me as Sean’s little sister"

"I do, absolutely I don’t intend to feel guilty a rownup And out In all the right places"

"Thank you, again" She laughed, and then her breath caught, and suddenly they were clinging to one another again, and rolling on the bed, passionately touching and teasing, and once again,at others, laughing…and then cliain The world see ho a way to etting into underwater fil the world beneath the sea, and she reminded him that Key West had some of the ht, it was deeply

When she woke, the woman was back

Not Tanya, the other woman The dark-haired wo-roo at Katie forlornly

Katie bit her lip and turned her head slightly, glad to see that she and David were both decently covered beneath the coolness of the air-conditioning

She stared at the girl in her room, and she moved her lips without a whisper "Not here! Never in host frowned, blinked and then nodded She stood, and glided sadly toward the door, and disappeared through it

8

Katie woke up early Lazy, s, she’d turned to David, and it see in the world that he was there with her Theythe heat of the day grow and glow upon theain, David left her a note, telling her that he’d be at his grandfather’s house

He still couldn’t call the place his own

He wanted to spend more of his time with the files Liam had left for him The police reports were filled with sheets on the detectives’ door-to-door questioning of neighbors No one had seen anyone enter the hbors saw hirandfather and others, that he had worked at the ht, and then been at ho, when he had left to go to the ler had been questioned; he was one of the few people with a key to thejust inside the kitchen door of the Beckett house, and many people knew that they were there It had been determined that there hadn’t been a break-in, so someone had come in with a key There hadn’t been an alarm system, despite the expense that had been poured into the place over the years

Forensics had yielded little other than the fact that Tanya had been strangled; an injury to her knee was at least a week old She had apparently skinned it The autopsy report noted that Tanya Barnard had not been tortured-a sh his hair, and began drawing a chart of the tiet into the ht before That meant her body had been elsewhere for several hours, then moved into the museum Whoever had put her in the museum either had a key, or knehere the keys were kept Many people knew about the key But the Becketts had all been hoht of the ht, that it had been planned Meticulously planned Days before, someone had to have taken the key and had it reproduced He had a key, there was a key they kept in the house, Danny Zigler had a key and Liaers on the table

It hadn’t been a randoeted, and the display of her body had been planned ahead of tione froler, any randfather’s friends…

He was going over the na Beckett had been smart, but he’d also had an open heart They’d welcoed kids in for tea, supported the police, the firefighters and every poor wretch who stuhway

Saht that Danny was shady David had a hard tiuilty of murder

Who then? Who had been around? Himself, Liam, Sam, Jaht, not until the wee hours of theStill, he could have hidden the body-but he hadn’t been gone between the hours of seven and nine

She had last been seen at O’Hara’s

There had to be so in the files