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“You’d think that sleeping in the same bed would do it,” Yuki said “But it’s been a while A month, anyway And a month before that”

“You’ve brought this up with him?”

“Hah No Neither one of us is into talk about squishy feelings”

“Yuki, I know you can figure this out if you try Maybe less talk, hties?”

“Okay, Claire Thanks for, you know, that”

“Maybe this drought has nothing to do with you, sweetie Could be he’s just bone tired But listen Do not bring a gun into the bedroom, hear me?”

Yuki let loose with a long peal of laughter The idea of pulling a gun on Brady was just hilarious He would pull his

“You sound better,” said Claire, laughing, too “As for Brady, you’re both working at the top of your careers, right? Don’t make yourself crazy That man loves you to death”

Yuki said good-bye to her friend and thought about what she hadn’t said to her, what she was afraid ofabout that

Just had to be

She went back to her case file and turned her mind, as best she could, to The People v Hill

CHAPTER 20

CINDY WAS IN her office at the Chronicle, writing a short follow-up piece on the indictment of Briana Hill for the Criot a Google Alert about Marc Christopher

She clicked on the page and saw that the article she had written after yesterday’s lunch at MacBain’s had spawned countless other articles As it got picked up, the story was doing a fast and good job of blanketing the internet The first story on the Google list had a thued rape victim, Marc Christopher

The photo of Christopher showed him