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“How old were you when you met him?”
“Twenty-two”
“You were a kid”
“I should have known better” She wrapped her arms around her chest
“You know better now”
She stared into his stoic gaze, feeling a connection “You’re not exactly the most open person You keep secrets You can be cold And yet I’ve got a thing for you What does that say about me?”
“You have good taste”
The deadpan answer coaxed a laugh “Right Or I’m just insane”
“You’re one of the sanest people I know, Leah”
His words tugged at her heart as if it were a kite and he the flyer “I’ve got to get back to work I have patients this afternoon”
“I’ll check around here and call you”
“How’re you going to find him? He’s been a step ahead of us”
“What was the name of the florist that sent you the flowers?”
“It was Nathan’s on Broadway I called them, but they couldn’t tell me much”
“They’ll talk to me”
Alex was en route to Nathan’s when he got a call from Deke “What do you have?”
“I’ve been going through Deidre’s financials, just looking to see if anything popped”
“And?”
“Two listening devices were charged to her credit card The make and model match the one we found in her town house the day she was murdered”
“The exact same model?”
“Yeah Exact What we found, she most likely put there”
“So ould she bug her own place?” Alex turned onto Fourth and found street parking He shut off the engine but didn’t move
“She was in a tough divorce Maybe she wanted to get so on Radcliff”
“Maybe” He tapped his fingers on the steering wheel
“If she planted the device, that means the receiver has to be close to her house”
“Within a mile”
“A search of the place revealed nothing that would have recorded conversations”
“She just moved to that place”
“Run dohere she used to live and search it And go over her car carefully Then get back to me”
“Will do”
Alex got out of the car, bracing against the wind that whipped along the buildings, which acted as a wind tunnel He walked the half block to Broadway and turned right Fifteen paces later he was in Nathan’s
A tall sliement of red roses “Can I help you?”
Alex pulled his badge from his breast pocket “Had a question about an order placed here a few days ago”
The“I’ll help if I can”
“It was an order of irises, sent to a Leah Carson”