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“Thel Walter’s phone, please,” Norma Rose said into the phone

Every cabin and roohly expensive amenity There was also a switchboard and operator just a few doors down the hall Ty leaned back, wondering why she’d called the ht watchmen Moe, the cook, was a talker In a conversation that lasted less than fivethey’d been at the resort

“Walter It’s Norarage” She paused before answering, “Yes, eventhem to my office”

Ty laughed, but cut it short at the little glare she cast his way It appeared Roger didn’t keep the Nightingale girls under control Nor the other two, Josie and Ginger

His good sense kicked in, telling hihters Norh He’d been careful hat he’d told her, and how he’d said it Roger Nightingale was a shter was intuitive Norh a lie with her eyes closed

Bodine’s name hadn’t been on the list, at least not under any of the aliases he’d used in the past Bodine had been known to associate with a few on the list, but Ty couldn’t say if he still did The es

“So,” Norent?”

The question was so unexpected, Ty was startled The hair on the back of his neck rose He cohter, and then he changed the subject “Do your sisters steal cars on a regular basis?”

Leaning back in her chair, Norma Rose crossed her arms and eyed him pointedly with those no-nonsense blue eyes “No, because I stay one step ahead of them”

“What about your father?”

“What about him?”

“Does he stay one step ahead of your sisters, too?”

“He doesn’t have to,” she said “He hasabout my sisters”

Ty wanted to stand, maybe walk over and look out the , but he knew she’d catch his unease He glanced back to the ledger “Is this everyone?”

She didn’t sigh, or make any such sound, nor did she move, but he felt her inward shift as she tried to decipher hiainst mobsters who couldn’t ainst her, too It had taken hiet to where he was to jeopardize it all over a woman

The sound of h the open , thickening the silence between hi to answer any more questions from him until he answered hers Ty wasn’t iet to this point He was usuallyher office, he’d spenthow fine she looked in that black-and-white sequined dress than keeping his focus on the prize Which was Bodine Not Norale

“My position here needs to reaze with his own

“So you are a federal agent”

“I’lanced around for good measure “To everyone else, I’m a lawyer Your Uncle Dave’s lawyer”

Nor Definitely thinking Lifting her chin slightly, she asked, “What are you investigating?”

Ty was slightly disappointed she’d given up so easily He liked a challenging adversary He just had to keep re himself that was not Norht in order to kidnap him”

“Kidnap him? What for?”

He lifted a brow She knehy gangsters kidnapped people

She nodded, accepting his silent acknowledgment “Who?”

Glancing toward the ledger again, he said, “You tell me”

Rising fro evenly until she stopped near the , leaned over the small table and pulled the curtain aside to peer out Ty found his and the seam of her nylons that rose out of her shoes and disappeared beneath her skirt His inspection continued upward, over her shapely derriere and subtly curved spine