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“Manage you ho hard on the table “But the point is, you can hold your head up, Linds, because you toldOkay? That’s the truth”

I’ sister, little sister thing since she crashed my crime scene a few years back and then helped me close the case

It’s hard to be friends with reporters when you’re a cop Their rationalized “public’s need to know” gives bad guys the heads-up and messes up jury pools

You can’t truly trust reporters

On the other hand, I love Cindy, and I trusted her 99 percent of the time She sat across fro likeher pretty features look even prettier She looked totally innocent of round

“Okay,” I said through clenched teeth

“Okay and I’m sorry?”

“Okay I’m sorry”

“Good You’re forgiven So, can you tellon this case?”

“You’re a funny girl, Cindy,” I said, laughing and waving my hand so that Yuki and Claire could see us from the doorway

Claire was so far along in her pregnancy she couldn’t fit in the booth anyot up, moved a chair to the head of the table for Claire, as Yuki slipped in beside Cindy Lorraine took our orders, and as soon as

she’d left us, Yuki said to Cindy, “Whatever I say, even if it’s in the public domain, it’s off the record”

Claire and I cracked up

“What a pain See, people think it’s actually an advantage that I know you guys,” Cindy said, sighing dramatically

“The hearing to suppress Junie Moon’s confession? It went great,” Yuki told us “Since Junie had been Mirandized when she confessed, the judge says it’s admissible”