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Sherlock said, "She’s got Sean to play with, well, along with Lucy Carlyle and his grandmother It could still happen, Davis Stay alert"

It helped, Davis thought, that it was cold and snowing, so Sherlock was all bundled up Even though she didn’t look a thing like Delsey, ith that hood pulled over her head, no one could tell if she was Delsey or Godzilla

"Delsey kept saying she’s the Trouble Magnet, so if anted trouble, she should be with us" He gave his head a shake and said, as if the words were being pulled out of his throat with pliers "The girl’s kinda cute, though"

"That’s what she said about you, Davis, or so close to that"

Davis called out, "Hey, Marvin, is that Ariel playing?"

Agent Dane Carver shouted from behind them, off to their left, "Under the black Toyota!" Both Sherlock and Davis dove to the ground and rolled, pointed their guns toward a row of parked cars on the street, Marvin right beside the hand, and aih Marvin was a civilian, it didn’t occur to her to tell hile shot, then a long burst of gunfire from all of them, and a yell There was silence for a bare second before Savich called out, "You shot him, Dane Sherlock, you and Davis okay? Marvin?"

"Yeah," she said "Regular snow angels Marvin? He’s a lovely, very big snow angel Hey, Marvin, get off ht, unexpected, and then Coop shouted, "Another one down, over here" They waited, then searched the street There was no one else

Savich looked down at the two tattooed youngtheir wounds One of them was close to the sketch of the man Griffin and Delsey saw in the alley in Maestro, the same man who’d tried to use the extension ladder to break into his house last night, if he had to guess

Savich prayed they’d survive and one of the as he leaned down and searched one of the young , and so he couldn’t believe it when his fingers closed over a cell phone He pulled out a sht and looked at it, Sherlock, Davis, Marvin leaning over his shoulder It was a throay, but it was a start

Marvin was puun back into his pocket and announced, "That all happened in a drunk second, didn’t it? It’s really fine to see these ht outside ht, Sherlock? Sorry I nearly squashed you"

She grinned up at hi me"

Marvin patted her cheek and walked back into the club to deal with all the excited voices he heard co from inside He closed the door behind him He was bombarded with questions, but sie, "It’s all over, folks The FBI are outside, and they’ve asked everybody to stay inside here for a minute Everyone can have a beer on the house while we’re waiting"

There was a cheer, and he quickly nodded to Ariel She looked a bit on the pale side, true, but she was gaht, proud of the tiny Croatian woel She put her flute to her ly beautifulthe room quieted, and the patrons slowly returned to their seats and their free beers--not the ih, the cheap beer on tap Ms Lilly’s people knew her well enough for that They didn’t want to get punched in the nose

Sherlock heard Ariel begin her flute solo again outside the club As usual, Marvin i they could dish up Sherlock wondered where Ms Lilly was Surely she’d heard the gunfire "Uh-oh," she said "Speak of the devil, here comes Ms Lilly"

"A force of nature, that woman," Davis said as they watched the owner of the Bonho out, a man’s coat pulled over her white satin dress and her five-inch stiletto heels, herthe way She wasn’t happy

She threw back her head and yelled over the sirens, "Dillon! Where are you, boy? You brain-dead or so trouble here, toto come here and try to roust onna kick your fine butt!"

Sherlock heard Dillon laugh, then shout, "I’ll be there in a second, Ms Lilly; we got us two perps here anted to hurt Sherlock We got it taken care of Everything’s over We had agents all over the place, and nothing happened inside"