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Rob looked at her, then fast down at his sneakered feet "Well, no, not yet I was trying to catch up to her I called her but she hung up on et into a taxi and followed I wasn’t stalking her, really, I only wanted to talk to her, tell her that I wasn’t--"

"A lying jerk?" Delsey said, turning toward hi Griffin’s arms

"I’m not, Delsey, I swear I’h the air "Rob, this isn’t the time We all know you ith Delsey all afternoon yesterday while Sherlock and I were interviewing your girlfriend"

"Yeah, I know, but--"

Savich cut hiht now you need to focus Think back, Rob Picture the scene in your mind Picture each person Can you describe the ave Delsey one last look, then said to Savich, "Okay, there were lots of people, at least a dozen, maybe o, waiting for the light to change Aclose, and then a second later, I saw Delsey flying into the street I pushed through the crowd and ed to pull her back" He sed convulsively "It was close, too close"

"Did anyone look fa attention, only looking at Delsey Even when I shoved through people to get to her, I didn’t notice their faces"

Detective Ben Raven said, "Officer Mankins and three other patrol officers corralled some of the people ere behind Ms Freestone They took their na citizens couldn’t wait to get away Our best shot at seeing the person who shoved Delsey ht be the traffic cae within the hour We’ll also check the cas within a block radius I’ black and white"

But Griffin wasn’t hopeful, not if the person who’d shoved Delsey was savvy about the caton, al wobbly and led her to the sofa and sat down beside her, never letting go of her hand He saw she was looking at Rob Rasmussen, who still stood behind a utilitarian office chair, notback at her

She licked her dry lips What would have happened if he hadn’t followed her to try to talk her around? "Griffin, ould someone want to kill ton I haven’t had the time or the opportunity to make a serious ene to do with so to kill Mrs Rasmussen?"

Captain Ramirez came to attention "What’s this? Wait a minute--Rob Rasmussen You’re related?"

Sherlock said, "Rob is Mrs Rasrandson"

Rob said to Captain Ra to do with the attempts on her life and Delsey hasn’t evento do with thatto do with a woer at a rival Rob, hoould Marsia know you spent hours with Delsey yesterday?"

Rob never looked away froht Before I could speak to her about Delsey, she told me about your visit at her studio and said she hoped she’d passed with flying colors Then she eyed me, and finally asked me about ton" His eyes fell to his sneakers "Not much more I wanted to wait until the weekend to break it off with her, but I did tell her I’d met someone I really liked, and I told her your name, Delsey She smiled at me, asked if you were an artist like she was, and I told her you wrote music She said she’d like to meet you She didn’t seem disturbed at all She said it was nice to et into it then, explain everything to her, but I got a call froency at one of our job sites I had to go see to it I toldclear with her