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He groaned "Don’t start that again, please I’m just on my best behavior with you"

I liked the sound of that, even though I doubted he e on the Oriental rug ere sitting on "So, what now? We have our suspect and our evidence Do we bust her, or what?"

"I don’t think so, not yet All we have is proof that she was targeting you It makes sense that she’s also our spy and that she therefore works for Idris But we don’t have that evidence"

"We’ll have to set a trap," I said, thinking aloud "We’ll have to goad her into acting"

"Now that we knoho it is, we can be ree of a trap"

He looked over at me "Do you have any plans for the rest of the day?"

It was like he’d readI’d rather do on a snowy Saturday than spend the day strategizing ways to save the co in front of a fireplace with a iven that he seemed reluctant to touch irl could hope

While he washed the breakfast dishes and I dried, he thought out loud "I don’t think you should let on that you’re getting your i back Make her think you’re still affected" He handedaffected while pretending not to be affected? You did a good enough job of fooling most of us"

"Iit’ll take to come back"

"And you definitely shouldn’t let on that you know about the shoes"

"Yeah, but how are we going to get everyall besotted?"