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He said, "Danny O’Malley is dead He wasthat Sherlock, Ben, and Callie atching them as closely as he was, saw the punch of surprise, then as his words sank in, the shock that showed clearly on their faces None of theht yet, probably because of the unexpected blow they were absorbing
"Okay," Ben Raven said, "let’s all sit down and talk about this"
Tai Curtis, a law clerk for Justice Su man, the one they’d been told disliked Eliza Vickers, looked like he’d been slapped He streaked his fingers through his hair, standing it on end "Oh, not Danny That just can’t be right, he’s--oh shit,us? Hey, you want one of us to confess?"
"Actually," Savich said, "spontaneous confessions don’t happen all that often"
It was Bobby Fisher who asked, "Why would someone kill Danny, Detective Raven?"
Ben said, "Danny was murdered because he was somehow involved in this Maybe he tried to blackmail the killer or the person who hired the killer We’re thinking Dannythat he unfortunately didn’t pass along to us He was killed not twenty-four hours after Justice Califano"
There was more on the four faces now--fear, stark fear Ben couldn’t blame them One of their oas dead, suddenly, violently He said, looking at each face in turn, "He paid the ultimate price for a stupid decision" His voice sounded hard as nails, Callie thought "We hope that none of you would now consider hiding anything froain, or for any other reason If you know so, tell us now, for your own safety I don’t want to see any more dead bodies If you’ve never seen a ue and I’ll let you see firsthand what could happen to you"
The three men looked ready to be sick
Sonya McGivens, another law clerk to Justice Surabbed a slice of cold pizza out of a delivery box fro of cheese fell over her chin but she didn’t seem to notice
Savich noted that she was a knockout--a tall blond with classic features--and a bare irl pants that barely covered her pelvic bones, and a lacy white top Savich wondered if one of the reasons Justice Wallace had hired her was because of her looks He also wondered if the Justice had ever lost his head with this young woman
She said between frantic bites, "None of us know a thing, honest, Detective Raven"