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Delsey’s face was utterly blank Was history repeating itself? Could Griffin be right? Could her luck in men be that sucky? Was she that irlfriend Tuesday night? There’s got to be a s They had to"

"Marsia Gay lives in Millstock, Maryland She’s a successful sculptor, or getting there Savich said he and Sherlock asked her about her intentions toward Rob, if she was serious, if she was thinking about e She said she hadn’t ht, and he introduced her to his family as practically his fiancée"

Delsey stared down her spaghetti, very carefully laid her fork on the table She looked sick, leached of color "There has to be an explanation"

"I just gave it to you, straight from Savich’s mouth You think either he or Sherlock would say that if it wasn’t true?"

"He didn’t mention her, not at all"

"I’m really sorry, Delsey Do you want me to bust him up?"

She hunched in on herself, shook her head The , shared all of himself with her, told her he’d never felt the same about another woman in his life She’d believed hied on the rumpled bed, room service sandwiches, potato chips, and a bottle of wine between the, kissing between bites He’d spoken so freely, with such enthusiasm, such openness, she had no doubt he’d ue, how she’d believed everything out of his mouth until she’d nearly drowned in his lies "Griffin, a pitiful, the moron’s not worth it" He eyed her, watched her pick up a roll, look at it as if she didn’t knohat it was, set it back down on her plate

"I thought he was the one, Griffin, finally, the perfect guy for ht to ask him if he was unattached I mean, of course he had to be or he wouldn’t have come on to me, he wouldn’t have wanted to have--" Her voice wobbled She wet her lips "And now you’re telling irlfriend?"

Griffin, always more cynical than his sister, said, "At least you found out before things went any further You need to step back right now, Dels I don’t have to bust hiht"

"No, I’ll do it," Delsey said She looked down at her congealed spaghetti and wondered ould happen if she threw it against the wall

"A week in Paris ot plenty of tiain at Stanislaus"

"Yeah, it sounds lovely All alone staring up at the Eiffel Tower"

"There would be advantages The Eiffel Tower’s got a great view frouy, you wouldn’t be able to get back down fast enough to catch up with him"

Rob called her on her way out of the restaurant to ask her if he could ht at his apart sushi Do you like sushi? I ine how ain"