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The room dipped around hiot him

“Co a hand on his partner’s beefy shoulder Matt focused on theirlfriend and her pain “We’re going to find out it en and his friends, we both know it Let’s leave these people alone”

Officer Jones gave Matt a long look then turned to Savannah “You Both of you—” he glanced at Margot, raking the tomen with his eyes “—you’re just like Vanessa”

Savannah hite and Matt didn’t think, he si in between Savannah and the policeman

“It’s tio,” Matt said

It took a moment of hard stare-down between Matt and Officer Jones but finally the cop nodded, slicked back his thinning hair and slid his hat on “We’ll be in touch,” he said, barely looking at the wo around the couch Instead he took a careful step toward Matt, who tensed, every ht

“I’ll be watching you,” the man murmured

“That’ll be fun,” Matt said with a suaranteed to piss off the cop And it did Luckily, his partner got a hand around the guy’s arm and led him out of the house before violence erupted

“Oh, one She collapsed onto the blue velveteen couch, a puddle of white linen and silk “That was ”

“I didn’t like those police officers,” the little girl said, lifting her head from her mother’s neck

“You and irl clirandmother

Savannah didn’t say anything, just glared at himent day

“It wasn’t h he knew it didn’t matter She either believed him or not

“I know that,” Savannah answered, her voice rough and husky, no doubt froer, and his shoulders went down, his back got loose with relief

He noticed her robe, purple silk with Asian style hand-painted flowers gliding over her breasts, tied tight at her trier of doing it hione and in her place was soerous