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That snapped him back He raised his face "His naht out I think we got it all He’ll need some radiation treatment, but he has a chance at a life now Deborah even caery and took a photo of Phoenix and his parents--you can see the relief on their faces, big suess it was still on her cell phone One of the policemen told me it was stolen Sorry, of course you know that

"Phoenix had a bit of a setback with his intracranial pressure that I had to ht I couldn’t, I needed to be close, just in case

"This h hisfront tooth So I was able to leave the hospital early thisday" He lowered his head to his hands but didn’t make a sound

Cam waited He raised his head, looked at her blindly "She was only twenty-six Last Sunday was her birthday We spent the day anchored off the coast, kicking back and drinking beer, eating chips and salsa, talking about hoere going to furnish our new place" He ran out of words and sat there, lasses with s about her Of course I’ll help, any way I can"

Twenty minutes later, Cam met Detective Loomis in the hallway "The ME estiht, but that’s not definite yet He’ll let us know if anything we don’t expect turns up at autopsy Did you learn anything from the boyfriend?"

Cam said, "Her boyfriend is a doctor, but he seems to know a lot about her career,it all We ht a break with that, actually Deborah was a record keeper There are piles of docu for the ot to be filled with the naents, producers--probably anyone with any clout at all that she’d met He told me practically Deborah’s whole life is on her laptop that’s --it’s a Toshiba Satellite--every part and audition, every personality Maybe with all those paper records and Dr Richards’s help, we can reconstruct a lot of it It’s more than we had in the other cases

"I asked him to reconstruct as much of her activities this past week I believe too this will help hiuilt for not spending the night with her"

Loo The Serial’s killed twice now, in under a week He’s escalating, and that scares me spitless"

She nodded "The profilers don’t like it, either It’s so they didn’t expect"

"So even Olympus isn’t always in control of the facts?"

"Alas, no Where’d you get the naain, the look of surprise, then he eased "Arturo’sflamenco dancer in the thirties in Barcelona My wife--a DEA Fed--didn’t like it, called ave hi to visit the lady across the street Doc told hborhood, said it sometimes drove him crazy, since she always see before he did He said Deborah treated her like her grand her le out whenever she had a chance"

Loomis nodded "The housekeeper and Daniel still have their heads together I hope she has so, I bet Daniel will get it out of her Tell your people get all chatty with the neighbors, use their shock and surprise to their advantage--"