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She walked over to the open door and looked out, eyes squinting into the brightness She closed her mouth and inhaled the fresh ocean air Another tour bus ru smell of exhaust this tiot all day"

She turned toward hi in through the open door brought out the streaks of red highlights in her hair "I need for you to follow up behind the police for me"

John waited patiently for ure her out when he asked, "follow up behind them for what?"

Suddenly she decided to coht he died" Her voice trailed off and her eyes went back to theand they busy intersection She looked to be re and worried

"May I ask who he is?"

"Well," she said, "you taking my case? I think I should know that first"

John couldn't help but wonder if there was really a legitimate case here at all So far he had to find a dead man and check behind the police It all see to the strangeness of the possible case, he found hiued by the wo totally new to hier on what it was just yet He needed more time with her "Consider the case mine"

She settled back in the chair he had offered her when she first stuht his car ran off the road and into a concrete light pole I wasn't exactly with hiether earlier that night"

It was the way she said the word accident and how her gaze dropped to the floor after she spoke The gestureback John felt like a chunk of net "You er the head of Oceanfront Records and soe about that accident Wasn't it over there near Copper's Ditch in Chesapeake?"

She nodded, picking at her fingernails again John could not believe how beautiful she was She was a work of art