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"Not if it has a GPS tracking program in it that your father had installed Not if you don’t want to get peppered with questions the instant you get hoet in trouble for it"

Peyton sat up off his pillows and then got to his feet As he walked over to a table that ran along the back of the sofa, he weaved like there was a stiff breeze blowing around him

"Take mine, then The code is oh-four-one-one It’s only so you have so on you--and I’ home at dawn Just be safe, okay? I don’t want to find another body--and this ti to be fine"

"That’s my lie--I mean line" He came over and held out his iPhone "And whereas you looked atat you with so"

"I’ll be careful I swear to you"

"Don’t ret this," he ave him her own code and put his phone in the pocket of her coat Then, with a quick hug and a final wave, she ghosted out of his suite, leaving hiames and his bird vodka … and the shadows that haunted hi far She reardens of his estate, just so she could do what she had said and breathe a little Snoirling around, not really getting organized into a proper fall, and the as bitter As she looked over her shoulder at the Tudoraround in his bathroohts, his bare torso so powerful, she thought for a moment that he didn’t look like an aristocrat any into her coat, she kneas too early to go to Axe’s He’d told her the door was always open, but …

When the idea came to her, she didn’t ih, however, she ghosted out …

… and re-for back so that she was in the middle of the empty street, she counted the floors The address on those papers she’d found in Allishon’s closet had listed an apartlanced to the left A human female with an open face and an easy manner was on the sidewalk in front of the entrance

"I’ the buzzer She’s on the fourteenth floor?"

Yeah, she was into honesty--but technically it was true: Allishon wasn’t going to be answering anything, ever again

"Come on in" The woman started for the door "You can ride my coattails"

"Thank you"

Elise followed her into the lobby and made small talk by the elevator, and then on the ascent The feot off on the fifth floor and Elise ! announced she was on the right level, she got off and looked both ways A little placard with apartment numbers on it pointed her to the left and she walked down the carpeted hall, passing countless doors