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He arched that brow again but didn’t look up as he typed my address into his phone In the meanti So seductive The aro off it lured me like a caffeinated Casanova Like Romeo below the balcony Coffee by any other name --

"Ms Davidson?"

I snapped back to the father

"Are you okay?"

"I’m fine!" I yelled No idea why

He eased away froain "I’ to quit caffeine" When he raised that saly, I explained "Bun in the oven"

"Ah" He nodded "Last tiive up whiskey Worst twelve oodness those brown-and-serve rolls bake fast"

I chuckled and stood as he pocketed his phone and rose to leave

"When would be a good tiuest?"

"I’ Around nine?"

"Perfect" I wrote the appointe out and tell Cookie not to let et

He shook my hand, then started to leave

"Oh, you left your envelope," I said, picking it up to hand to him

"No, that’s for you Consider it a down payment"

"Works for me"

I opened it after he left The thick envelope held about ten photocopied pages of what amounted to the file the Vatican had on e occurrences hich I’d been involved, a short description of what part the investigator believed I’d played in those strange occurrences, and his final thoughts, which always read, "‘Further investigation reco

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Who wouldn’t want a piece of this?