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“Whoa, whoa! This is the biggest deal about nothing I’ve ever heard Her arms were full! I opened her car door to help her!”

“Tell it to your lawyer,” I snapped I had one hand on Twilly’s arm, my cell phone in my other, and was about to call for backup

“Wait aher? Because that’s crap I admit I provoked her a little, applied a little pressure just to get her going I’m a journalist We do that Look If I made a mistake, I’m sorry Can we talk? Please?”

I’d checked Twilly out, and his record was clean I had awould have been appropriate Now that I’d cuffed him — that media flap Cindy had warned Yuki about?

It was going to go down

I could already see Twilly spinning this “bust” to Larry King, Tucker Carlson, Access Hollywood It would be bad news for Yuki, bad for me, but it would be stupendous publicity for Twilly

“Sergeant?”

I had to hit rewind I had to try

“You want to avoid a court appearance, Mr Twilly? Leave Yuki Castellano alone Don’t sit behind her in court Don’t tail her in supermarkets Don’t enter her car or premises, and we’ll put this incident aside

“Yuki files another co you in Are we clear?”

“Totally,” he said “Crystal”

“Good”

I unlocked the cuffs and started to leave

“Wait!” Twilly said He stepped into the other room, with its aqua-striped wallpaper and canopied bed He snatched a pen and pad fro desk and said, “I want to ht”

He scribbled notes, then recited my speech back to me, verbatim