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I said, “Sure Could have happened like that”

But I was unconvinced

I crouched down next to Millie’s body I don’t normally talk to dead people, but this was an exception, and I didn’t care who heard me

“I’m sorry, Millie So sorry this happened to you”

CHAPTER 60

YUKI WAS ENSCONCED in the snug green lady chair in front of the TV

It was after nine Two hours ago Brady had said he’d be bringing home Thai food for dinner So where was he? He hadn’t called He hadn’t answered his phone Was he under soe? Had he fallen into the sack with a lady friend? Or had he just forgotten about her?

She was hungry and she was getting ly impossible to see him as the man “who loved her to death”

Yuki went to the kitchen and threw together a les sandwich She ate it over the sink, then returned to the living roos on the footstool, then logged back in to her ThinkPad, glancing at her other necessary work tools—pens, sticky pad, coffee, pretzel sticks, clicker, phone—arrayed on the lamp table to her left

She atching cable news out of the corner of her eye, while e her rab it and knocked over herMilky coffee spread quickly across the table, over the edge, and onto her mother’s ancient carpet

Yuki shouted, “Nanda,” Japanese for “What the hell?” and grabbed the phone She barked into it, “Brady?” as she ran to the kitchen for a dish towel

The voice said, “It’s Marc I’ve been shot”

She could hardly hear him

“What? Marc? Where are you?”

“Uh In an ambulance”