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So while the addition of a cool punkis definitely a plus, I’d still like to kno it happened Did Cooper add Eva and her plus one because he felt sorry for me, as there are so many more people (at least three hundred) on his side?

It’s all very baffling, but again, not soure out just now

"And there’s no sign of, um, vomit in her toilet or trash can," I volunteer "So I don’t think she had that stomach flu so many people have"

Eva looks at me like I’m nuts "What sto on Jas on her walls "That stoasp "Oh God! Casino Nightif there’s a virus or whatever going around, won’t they all get it if they’re confined to a se to Death that that happened on the Queen Mary 2 The entire ship got the norovirus, a thousand passengers or soed frolances at me in amusement "If I understand it correctly, this cruise your residents are going on is only around the island of Manhattan, not the Caribbean They’ll be hoht And anyway, I haven’t heard of any stoent Lancaster "Have you heard about any stoent Lancaster shakes his head "None of my people have it" Then he touches his earpiece "My people are asking, by the way, howas it takes, 007," Eva says "Why, do you have a train to catch and then derail for Her Majesty?"

"I’ a little "I thought I explained I’m Diplomatic Security, with the--"

"State Department, yes, yes," Eva says, impatiently "So you said So is that a passport in your pocket, or are you just glad to see ent Lancaster frowns and turns away, but I see the back of his neck turning red

"No one has a sense of humor anyent is blushing

There’s a loud rattle from the hallway as the doors to the service elevator open

"Finally," Eva says "It’s Ra with the body bag and gurney

"Hey, Raent Lancaster stops hiuy in the hallway He’s a real-life James Bond"

Ra, sir?" he asks Special Agent Lancaster

"Peachy," says the agent, and waves Raoing around?" Eva asks him

"It’s too early in the fall for the flu," Ramon says matter-of-factly He has a white paper sack balanced on top of the gurney An extre with him "Hey, Heather," he says to uess what I stopped for since I had to drive around for so long looking for a parking space, and we got stuck with that crispy critter over on the West Side Highway and didn’t have tinizes the logo on the sack "Murray’s? Oh, Raood to hborhood without getting sandwiches from Murray’s"

Eva leaps up to look inside the sack while Raoes to look down at the body I rise to join hi hie Seems like such a waste"

"Yeah" There doesn’t seem to be much else to say