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Ian caht after Bones stormed out Kra He looked at es with my hastily scribbled words and read it

"Since you and Crispin are now finished and I have a few hours to kill, how about that shag?" he asked with heavy irony

"Bite es

He winked "Of course My second-favorite thing to do in bed"

I didn't reply to that because I knew Ian wasn't serious He'd read enough to realize our breakup was staged, but trust Ian not to miss a chance to be a jackass Spade came down the staircase next His wary expression as he looked at me said he wasn't aware that what he'd overheard was faked He'd witnessed a real breakup between me and Bones before and had to talk sense into both of us later, so he was probably thinking, Bugger, not this again

I handed hin After a few brief moments, his frown cleared, replaced by lethal intentness as he looked up at me Then he took the pen and wrote three words in the space left on the page

I' After what Sarah had done to Denise, not a single argument I made, verbally or otherwise, would talk him out of that

Chapter Thirty-Five

The cab driver stopped along the street, and I glanced in the distance at the white outdoor theater shaped like a huge half shell

"Here we are," he said cheerfully

I checked the meter and pulled the appropriate ae"

"All right Happy Halloween"

That hat I was hoping for, too I got out, watching his taillights fade away as he drove off Then I tightened n, waiting

Fifteen o to obsidian and stars replaced the last dying rays of the sun, a sleek Mercedes E class sedan pulled up, the h, the tintedrolled down to reveal Sarah at the wheel, her black hair pulled back into the same sort of severe bun Elisabeth norhted features that were lovely without the slightest hint of makeup On Sarah, it only served toattention to thick eyebrows that could really use a good tweezing and a ht line