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"Maybe not," caeet back and see what he’s discovered about Charleston"

"I’nor said "We’ll have to check it out" Ragnor’s words about Venice disturbed her They were ht he should be

Destroyed

Biting her lip, she moved back up the stairway In her roo out her phone book

Under ordinary circumstances, she’d never uest, but these weren’t ordinary circumstances

She dialed the Danieli, and after aand rang She felt a deepening sense of dread

Then Cindy answered the phone

"Cindy? It’s Jordan"

She was greeted by silence Then suddenly Cindy lashed out at her

"You bitch! You rotten little bitch! We spent half the night looking for you We finally traced you to the airlines and New Orleans And by then, Jared was sick, so sick they had to take hi there now What the hell is thethe cops to say you’d et out of there Tiff Henley was murdered I saw her body"

"Tiff Henley is in Paris The cops said so And Jared said so, too"

"Jared lied to you, Cindy"

"Don’t you understand !"

"Cindy, I love Jared, you know that?"

"Like hell! Your ed when Steven died, and now you’re crazy You’re simply crazy, and you’ve hurt him "

Cindy’s voice dissolved into a torrent of tears

"I have to go I just cas to stay with hiet your ungrateful ass back here!"

The phone went dead in Jordan’s hands She felt so she’d never decided to be either a criminal or a cop She’d left the door open tothere

"I have to go back to Venice Immediately You "

"We’ll go back to Venice," he said, eyeing her coldly "But you shouldn’t have called Phone calls can be traced"

"They already kneas in New Orleans"

"And now they’ll knoe’re warned about Jared" He paused "There’s another stop we have to make first"

"Where?"

"Charleston"

"Why?"

"Sean has spent the day tracing your Steven Moore He made a really sudden appearance in Charleston He’d also disappeared from his last job in New York Supposedly, he’d been injured and suffered ah, his family died at the same time A close friend on the New York force met with a serious accident No one re?"

"I’ht have been a rather cunning vampire" She shook her head "No?that’s impossible You didn’t know him He was the kindest ood actor Make yourself a cop It’s a found And aetting too nosy And how easy to restrain people when they were trying to escape"

"You’re wrong!"

"I’ll be happy for you to prove "

"How?"

He turned and started out of the rooo quickly, having forgotten in the last few hours just how ?" she asked

"We have to exhu away "He was burned! And you can’t just dig him up?an exhuet to Venice?"

"We’ll be on a plane by ht," he told her