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“He definitely didn’t know about the dog” Lance walked back to the kitchen The dog was in the corner, eyeing theave him quite a surprise”
“Don’t look at her ItShe cowered under the table as he filled boith food and water and set thean dressed in your clothes this ?” Sharp asked with his typical bluntness
“It’s not what you’re thinking” Lance went to the fridge and poured a glass of filtered water
Sharp raised his hands “I didn’t make any assumptions”
“It was late e left the hospital last night Morgan stayed inhappened” Lance didn’t knohy it felt important that Sharp know that
Sharp said, “Of course nothing happened You’d never take advantage of her”
“I wanted to,” he admitted “Does that make me a jerk?”
That kiss had nearly done him in
“No It makes you human” Sharp slapped him on the back
A knock sounded at the door Lance walked to the foyer and looked through the“It’s Tony Allessi, Jamie Lewis’s best friend”
He opened the door
Tony’s Mohawk had changed color to bright green “I know it’s early I wanted to stop on my way to school I need to talk to you It’s about Jamie”
Lance stepped aside Sharp was in the hallway behind hio in here”
Tony paced a nervous square in front of Sharp’s desk Lance crossed his arms and leaned on the wall Sharp sat down behind his desk “What can we do for you, Tony?”
Tony stopped “It’s Jamie”
“Have you seen her?” Sharp asked
“No That’s just it” Tony resumed his tour of the room’s perimeter “Since she left hoht her food and other stuff she , but I knew she was OK”
“And now?” Lance pushed off the wall
“She s I don’t knohere she went I looked everywhere I could think of Nobody’s seen her”
Sharp frowned “Since when?”
“Since the night Tessa Palmer died” Tony stopped behind a chair and put both hands on the back His fingers clenched “I’m really worried”
Sharp nodded “Smart of you to come to us”
“Make a list of everywhere she one” Lance went to the war room and returned with a blank sheet of computer paper He handed Tony a pen from Sharp’s desk
“OK” Tony eased into the chair and leaned on the desk as he wrote “But I already checked out all these places”
“Make another list of anyone else Jaone to for help,” Sharp added
Tony finished writing and pushed the list across the desk “I wrote my cell phone nu else”
“Thanks, Tony” Lance escorted him out the door, and then returned to Sharp’s office
“Damn it We need to find this kid, and we need toto start on this list If this kid is still around, someone has seen her”
Lance headed for his office while Sharp left via the front door As Lance settled in his chair, he heard crunching fro water
There were tooin this town They had to find Jamie for her own sake, and the police needed to locate Dean Voss for everyone else’s
Chapter Thirty-Four