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"Holy cow" I put both feet on the floor and sat up straight "I’?"

"Yep"

"Well, that sucks ass"

"Yes, it does"

"Can you ask the to hed softly "But, ask who?"

Perhaps her decision to reels"

"Oh, right No"

"Why not?" I asked, glowering a little

"I told you I don’t talk to angels I just sort of hear the?"

Cookie shook her head

"How did you--?" I stopped ossip that much?"

"You have no idea"

I showed Sister Mary Elizabeth to the door, then turned back to Cookie "Is it just me, or was that weird?"

"Both" She eyedto off someone"

"Not directly," I said defensively "I mean, who kno many people I’ve killed indirectly You, too, for thatto find out if a man named Keith Jacoby was in the Cayman Islands around the time of the doctor’s first wife’s death"

"Perfect I’ll do a little research on Reyes’s case and the naave me"

"That’s so hat she said" Cookie sat behind her desk "How she actually hears angels"

But was that really the reat-suffering thing?"

Her expression softened "Can you just make sure I’m not around when it happens?"

"No can do," I said, strolling back towave of my hand "If I have to suffer, then so does everyone else within a ten-mile radius"

She pursed her lips "What ever happened to taking one for the tea yourself for the greater good?"

"Not that into hu in silence?"

I stopped and turned back to her, ly "If I have to suffer, I’ll be screas the whole time You’ll be able to hear me all the way to Jersey, mark my words"

"You’re very testy today"

Fifteen y on my desk "Remember that dental assistant at Reyes’s trial? She said Earl Walker was scared of Reyes, and she just happened to work for the sah his dental records?"

"Sure, I reuess where Sarah Hadley is now"

"Jauess"

"Listen to this--"

"You realize I can hear you without the annoying intercom"

Cookie and I both leaned forward and looked at each other through the doorway