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“Don’t you feel it?” she said “That we’re kind of drifting apart?”

There was so you”

He disengaged fro for the right words He sipped his water before saying, “Jacobi unloaded a pile of administrative work on me He just can’t handle it all any my butt, I’m primary on that attempted murder and suicide”

Yuki had heard about the case A woman had left divorce court and driven her car onto a sidewalk and into her husband, his girlfriend, and the husband’s lawyer Then she had sped to the Golden Gate Bridge, cli, and jumped to her death

Brady said, “The husband and girlfriend are okay, but the lawyer is in ICU If he dies, it’s got to be processed as a hoh the killer already self-inflicted the death penalty”

Yuki said, “See, Iwhat you’re thinking about”

He tipped up her chin and pecked her lips When dinner came, Yuki turned down another drink Brady ate like he hadn’t eaten in the last twenty-four hours After he had put down his knife and fork, he asked her to b

ring him up to speed on her woman-on-man rape case

While she was telling hi “Hang on” and “’Scusethe phone off

“Sorry,” he said “Work My phone is always open”

He couldn’t turn off his phone for an hour? That clinging sadness she’d been carrying around had finally lightened, and noeighing her down again

They skipped dessert and coffee Later that night when they were both in bed, and rain clouds veiled, then revealed, the full moon outside their bedroom , Yuki lay wide awake

Had Brady been telling her the truth when he said he was just overly busy? Or was he keeping so from her?

What in the world rong?

CHAPTER 31