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Ian’s gaze flickered "Don’t talk You’re too weak" "I’ to keep all the blackmail money for herself Lilyabout outside the bedroom While you were off in the parlor, and after Hart left the room, she nipped in, quarreled with Sally, and stabbed her No wonder Lily agreed to go to that house in Covent Garden and not coive a damn who killed Sally"

Beth looked hurt "But I solved the mystery Tell Inspector Fellows"

"Inspector Fellows can rot in hell"

"Ian"

"He thinks he’s a bloody good detective He can find out for hilared at her, his eyes still nothers "I don’t care"

Beth obediently settled back into the pillows, but she couldn’t resist tracing his cheek His jaas dark and sandpaper rough, showing he hadn’t shaved in a while "How did you find me at the church?" Beth asked "How did you know?"

"Fellows found someone who heard Mrs Palmer tell a cabbie to take them to Bethnal Green Hart knew Mrs Palmer’s sister lived there When you weren’t at her house, I decided you’d try to get away from Mrs Palmer and back to the church that had been your husband’s" He looked away "I knew you’d been happy there"

"How did you even knohere it was?"

"I’ve explored all parts of London I re the clean scent of his lawn shirt "Bless you and your ain"

"Does it a it rather like a circus trick Dear heavens, like you’re a trainedSally Tate Thank you for being so damned noble and conscientious"

"I worried soesture that indicated one of his troubling headaches "Sometimes I convinced es, blocked out so I don’t remember" Beth closed her hand over his "But you didn’t Both killers are dead, and it’s over"

"You saw me try to choke the life out of Fellows It took Curry and Mac to pull me off hi," Beth said, trying to ht my handlers at first I hurt ive me my treatments " "Handlers?" Beth started to sit up, but the pain pulled her back down "You weren’t an animal"

"Wasn’t I?"