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"Yes, sir"

"Very well It is painful, but I will tell you Margaret had told Stewart I had tried to kiss her in the kitchen during a party soo However, it was a lie on her part The fact is Margaret wanted to sleep with me I didn’t want it, ot a little drunk, so she really wasn’t herself She kissed ry and confronted ift shop, as Bobby Fisher told you"

"What were the papers he aving against your chest?"

"Papers? I don’t remember any papers Stewart always carried papers, his notes on whatever he was thinking about at any given time Oh yes, I re theent Savich, no idea at all"

"Did you tell hiaret?"

"Certainly not I accepted his anger and apologized"

Savich thanked him He wondered how much he’d just been told was the truth It had been a very long day He needed to go hoive Lily a chance to be with Si to worry about a little boy stuffing polenta in his nose

They took their leave about five minutes later Callie saw them to the front door

"We’ll do a very quick detour to headquarters," Savich said to Ben "I’ll give you soht, then try to relax," Savich said "I want your brain fresh in theelse all of you need to hear" But he didn’t tell them about his conversation with Justice Wallace until they were outside

"Incredible," Callie said "He actually accusedon to him?"

"You don’t believe him, do you?" Ben asked

"At this point," Savich said, "I have no idea what to believe, but your old-plated to arage at hoht-thirty, he said, "After we play with Sean until he’s snoring, I’ht be fun What do you think?"

"You’re teasing me You know very well the moment Sean is down, you’ll spend three hours with MAX"

"Hair rollers first," he said, kissed her again, and grinned

She rolled her eyes and climbed out of his sexy Porsche

CHAPTER 21

SAVICH LAY ON his back, staring up at the ceiling, Sherlock tucked against hi sprawled over his belly, her soft curly hair brushing against his jaw Her breath arainst his neck He should have been asleep, but Danny O’Malley’s girlfriend, Annie Harper, filled histo visit her at the hospital, to judge her state of mind, to see how coherent she was To walk in and find your boyfriend’s hastly experience for anyone, particularly an innocent young wo, first thing, he’d see to it Savich knew that Annie had to know so, even if she didn’t realize it, he was sure of it But right now he had to slow his brain down, had to get soton University Hospital--

He was suddenly aware he was drea in the dreaainst hie in the air itself It seemed suddenly heavier sos It wasn’t particularly frightening, just different, so he’d never experienced in a dream before That heavy air seeped slowly into hi that should have been solid, but wasn’t He was no longer alone inside histhat stirred the hair on his arht there with hi that she was able to siht into his brain He still felt no particular fear, it was a dreaency, a dreadful urgency She aiting for hie her, to let her knoare of her

In that instant he saw her clearly Her black hair, long and straight, nearly to her waist--an old hippie style from the early seventies o the saht in the Poconos She was very pretty, with dark blue eyes Black Irish, that’s what she was, although he didn’t kno he knew He’d been barely older than Sean when she’d been murdered