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“Jason Twilly just told me he knoho killed Michael Campion, Lindsay, but he wants me to think that he did it That he killed Michael Lindsay! Maybe he did”

Twilly’s rented Mercedes was in her rearview ht, took a sudden turn into an alley — and when she was sure she was no longer being followed, she parked in a fire zone outside the Hall

She flashed her ID at the security guard, ran through the metal detectors, then took the stairs to the squad roo when she found Lindsay waiting for her at the gate

“Don’t worry,” Lindsay told her “I’ve got your back”

Chapter 94

TWO HOURS after leaving the Hall of Justice, Yuki packed an overnight bag and headed out of town She tried to shake the echo of Twilly’s voice as she drove over the Golden Gate Bridge toward Point Reyes

Could Twilly really have killed Michael Campion? If so, ould he do it?

And ould he tell her?

She turned on the radio, found a classical station, dialed it up loud, and the music filled the car and herto Rose Cottage, to walk in the surf and remember that she wasn’t a quitter

That she wouldn’t quit on this

As she got onto Highway 1, she let the incomparable beauty of the place take her over She switched off the radio, buzzed down all the car s so she could hear the thundering waves break over the huge rocks below her Moist ocean air whipped her hair away froht blood into her cheeks She looked out over the blue, blue sea that stretched out to the horizon — no, out to Japan — and she breathed in the fresh air, consciously exhaled, letting the tension go

In the shway 1, passed the little shops at the intersection, and frolanced down at her neatch It was only two thirty in the afternoon, plenty of sunlight left in the day

The sign spelling out ROSE COTTAGE ¼ MILE was alht it and len and up an unpaved road that climbed the hillside The rutted road becaer’s cabin just ahead

The han, welcoed pleasantries as Vaughan ran Yuki’s credit card through the , “I was just watching the news Too bad you didn’t win”

Yuki looked up, said, “You’ve got takeout ht? The Farm House does takeout?”