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When Mason Lord saw the photo, he said quietly to Gunther, "How clever the play on words is Isn’t it odd? It’s this photo that has broken my patience, my indifference Get the name of the paparazzo who took the picture"
JUST after lunch that day, Eve Lord carand foyer to hear Raer Your father is over the worst We all knoho likely shot hi we can do about it As to the actual person who pulled the trigger, the cops are on it Chances are slim we’ll ever know This could mean that the violence will escalate I don’t want us here if it does, particularly Eo home"
And Molly, fruazed up at the big man whom Eve would take to bed in a minute, stared up at him like she wanted to eat hihed and juuard, but he was fast, ainst his chest, his ars around his waist Then he laughed and swung her around "Ho him once, twice, a half dozen more times "I like the sound of that"
Slowly, he slid her down the front of his body When she was standing, staring up at hi, he leaned down and kissed her mouth Molly’s hands were on his shirt She looked ready to rip it off hi on here than a little friendship"
"Yes," Ra Molly slowly The taste of her was still fresh, still drawing on hiainst hi to be married" They hadn’t told her before It felt a bit on the indecent side to tell that to a woratulations," Eve said She looked down at Molly’s waistline "You pregnant already?"
"No, I’ in that condition would be kind of hard, ith E in the same room, don’t you think?"
"I would say that in my experience, men always find a way My former fiance nailed me once in the coat closet with his family not six feet away"
Raed Molly to his side "Is E chocolate-chip cookies in Miles’s kitchen?"
Eve pulled on soft pale crealoves that matched her silk dress "Not chocolate chip, but her new favorite-peanut butter Mrs Lopez was chattering about it I’ to see your father, Molly Does he know about this?"
"Yes, we told hiht"
"I see So I’et back?"
"Depends," Ra to celebrate?"
"Sure," Eve Lord said, then called out, "Gunther, I’e ten of Section A, there was brief hway 88 between Mooseheart and Aurora by a passing motorist The man had been beaten severely, but was expected, in time, to make a full recovery His cameras had been crushed and left beside hirapher, but bottom line, what he as a paparazzo
"I think we should pack our rab Eas, but Rule Shaker’s there, and I can’t quite handle getting married anywhere near to where he is I don’t want any azines or tabloids with pictures of Emma She saw the one in the National Infored to get it away frootten to the part about her playing the piano as well as her ine the field day theat my folks’ place? They always find out, noout of the kitchen, a dishcloth in his hands "Thank God you’re both here I just don’t believe this Soain, Molly Oh God Where’s Gunther? Where’s Mrs Lord?"
"Is he all right, Miles?"
"Yes, he is That was one of the guards we hired to protect hi across the way-a good hundred and fifty yards-right through theHe wounded a nurse as taking your father’s blood pressure"