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I HUNG UP with Jacobi and tried to tell Joe what I could barely understand or believe

The TV was on ain and again, with a crawl at the bottooes off at Civic Center Area is closed while bomb squad, fire dept, police contain the perimeter”

Joe said, “What did Jacobi say?”

I said, “It was about Connor Grant Jacobi toldto blow up City Hall”

“How does he know that?”

Joe asked me to repeat every word of what Jacobi had told me We stepped out of the kitchen and Julie’s earshot

I told Joe, “A ht after the explosion and asked for the chief His name was Micah Woodhouse He was the father-in-law of Lisa Woodhouse, one of the Sci-Tron victi Grant, ain

“According to Micah Woodhouse, Cary had followed Grant to the Civic Center and had called his father to say he was suspicious And then a taxi blew up in front of City Hall

“Micah thinks his son was killed in the blast”

Joe and I went over to the sofa, switched on the TV, and watched as new ies came on the TV It appeared that the roads had been torn up, a few vehicles had been overturned, and City Hall had taken sos were still standing The body count wasn’t yet in, but when Joe picked up his phone to access the Twitterverse, he told er in the cab was dead

I tried not to show Julie that I was shaken when I put her to bed Had Cary Woodhouse foiled Grant’s plan? Or was Grant’s entire escapade meant to end in a suicide car bomb?

Connor Grant

Still akaboom

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