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"Are you going to watch?" Beauvoir asked

Gaht "Yes You?"

"Maybe" He also paused "Yes" There was a silence as both hed Beauvoir

"When you do, don’t be alone," said Gamache

"I wish--"

"So do I," said Ga That if they had to relive it, they could at least be together

Sitting heavily in one of the leather wing chairs of the St-Laurent Bar, Chief Inspector Galass of water and called Reine-Marie

"I was trying to get you" She sounded stressed, upset

"I know, I’ Jean-Guy just told me How did you hear?"

"Daniel called froue told him Then Annie called It apparently appeared about noon and has gone wild Journalists have been calling for the past half hour Armand, I’m so sorry"

He heard the strain in her voice and he could have happily killed whoever had done this Forcing Reine-Marie to relive it, forcing Annie and Daniel and Enid Beauvoir And worse The families of those who died

He wanted to reach down the line and hold Reine-Marie, hug her to hiht, that this was just a phantom from the past The worst was over

But was it?

"When will you be home?"

"By tomorrow"

"Who would do this, Armand?"

"I don’t know I need to watch it, but you don’t Can you wait until I coether"

"I’ll wait," she said She could wait

She rements of that day Armand hadn’t been home Isabelle Lacoste had contacted her and explained the Chief orking on a case and couldn’t even, in fact, speak with her Not for a day

She’d never gone twenty-four hours without hearing her husband’s voice Not once, in , at just after noon a coworker at the Bibliotheque Nationale arrived at work, her face stricken