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Yuki demurred, but Marc lowered his face and came in for a kiss She was shocked and offended, and she pushed hi, “Hey, Marc, no”

He released his hold and tried to laugh it off “I’ht now I have no defenses at all”

“That’s not good,” she said

“I’m really sorry I didn’t plan that It was an impulse”

She said, “I have to get home We’ll talk tomorrow”

Yuki walked on ahead, unlocked her car, and, after buckling in, gunned her engine She drove up California without looking into her rearview htaway of Sansome

Those last ed her feelings and her perspective on hio out for dinner rather than meet in her office had been calculated That, in fact, he had planned this or so like it

Marc’s boyishness, the charine hiht back on the recording she’d seen soviolated by Briana Hill Ja started while the sex was already in progress His theory of the case, Briana’s version, was that Marc had staged a rape game

Was that true? Did Giftos know so that she didn’t know? Was that why he had put off his opening statement until she’d presented her case?

Yuki’s phone rang It was resting in the cup holder in the console beside her

She picked up

Marc said, “Yuki, please forgive me, okay? I was inappropriate and I’ain”

“Okay, Marc All is forgiven Good night”

She clicked off and dropped the phone back into the cup holder For the first time since she’d , like she had entered a tunnel and a bright light filled her vision

Like a train wreck was loo, directly ahead