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He patted her hand "I love it all, even that retro stuff you like to blast Sherlock, the spaghetti and ood Thank you"

"Nope, not hetti irinned at Savich "If the sauce and ive me your recipe Here, Delsey, load up" He passed her the hetti "I haven’t heard you play yet, Savich Quinlan told uitar? And you write a lot of your own stuff?"

"He sure does," Sherlock said as she forked up a bite of spinach salad "We promise we’ll invite you next tihetti, closed her eyes, anda spiritual moment here Dillon, this is seriously excellent"

Davis said, "That’s it, then, I gotta have the recipe, keep the cute girl here in arlic toast was passed around, room made on everyone’s plate for a bite or two of spinach salad, the Chianti poured Sherlock felt herself begin to relax She hadn’t realized how tense she was She took a deep breath, felt her shoulders ease She watched Delsey and Davis argue and laugh, and they sounded pretty relaxed, too Relaxed and relieved

Davis raised his wineglass "Here’s to the incredible drug bust in Maestro today And no agents were seriously wounded"

After everyone drank, Delsey said, "I’m still amazed it was really Professor Salazar I don’t understand it He’s a world-faoes And he’s a drug lord? I still can’t get "

Savich said, "I’ve learned that for soet, weaned on the Lozano fa to punch Griffin out the next tih that cave hours after he was shot in his leg I was letting hirabbed the phone away and said the wound wasn’t bad at all, and not to feel sorry for hihetti "Then they both laughed"

One arlic toast, and the next she was standing over the DEA agent dead in her bathtub, then hurled into the stark terror when the gangthe knife to her throat in her bed at the B&B She’d be dead if not for Griffin She hadn’t fallen apart, she’d controlled her fear, she’d handled things, she’d been ready to fight back, and noas over

She was alive, Griffin was alive, Anna was alive She didn’t have to fight her fear anymore She trembled suddenly, felt the shakes start deep in her belly, as cold as the snow falling steadily outside the dining room s She hated the thin-as-paper voice that came out of her mouth "It’s all ht, then--"

"Then what?" Sherlock said "The DEA agent’s body wouldn’t have been in your bathtub?"

"Well, that’s true, but if I hadn’t gone home early from that dreadful party, I wouldn’t have never seen a body and I--you--all of us would never have been involved"

Davis chewed a meatball and sed He leaned into her until she looked at hi it up, Delsey None of it is your fault You’re bla ho he had said was like blah, blah, blah in her ears He put his arood shake "Look at h this, and so did you They broke up a huge drug-s operation today, seized s and weapons destined to be sold to kids on the streets They captured or put an end to the people responsible That’s as good as it gets for us You helped with that You should be proud of your brother, and of yourself"

So stark, yet it worked Delsey in to melt

"That’s better Now eat sohetti The meatballs, Savich, they’re better than reen bean on her plate and held it in front of her, frowning

Sherlock said, "Go ahead, Delsey, you can eat the green bean and think at the same time"