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Holrimaced at the mention of her uncle’s sex life "Yes, yes, fine, except we’re not in a position to approach him, so it doesn’t matter None of us are done up like art dealers and you’re a little too spot-on to play a prospective art student You look like you just ca A disconnected undercut, Watson? Really?"

August s my jaw

"That’s because she thinks you’re handso over at us now I’d been staring Quickly, Hol my collar "You look ridiculous," she said Her hands arm "I like youin the air, sickly sweet and familiar Forever Ever Cotton Candy The Japanese perfuood, Si past her to clap me on the shoulder "And really nice work, with the deductions" It came out unnatural, like he’d learned how to compliment people fro away fro fish first"

"What big fish?"

There was a look on August’s face, soone "Charlotte, we’re going to go play pool," he said

"We’re playing pool? Don’t you mean in the pool?" I paused "Why the hell would we play in the pool?"

"Go off, then," she said, coiling a strand of hair around a li back into character "I iine I’ll work faster on my own, anyway"

Holmes and not-Holmes Businesslike words in a porn star voice

"I’ust told her, annoyed, and steered me away Past the bar, past a circle of overstuffed chairs, past a group of irl in a skirt served them drinks I wondered if she was one of the art students who lived here, too If that was part of the deal I felt sick

There was a pool table in the corner Unlike the heavy, ancient ones in Holmes’s house, this one was s to the wall Only the felt surface was an opaque white

"This seems pointlessly complicated," I said

"What does?"