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“Are the only lead I had up until today”

Anton or Henry would never harm anyone The idea made absolutely no sense

“You’ve met my fathers How in God’s name could you ever take them for killers?” Another possibility popped into her head It would have knocked her to her knees if she hadn’t already been sitting “Was takinga setup?”

He rocked back on his heels and studied the worn couch “At first,” he admitted

“You bastard” Bitterness landed like a rock in her sto out”

He strode past the rolltop desk, across the thick, gray carpet to a bookcase jaraphies and fra adults He pulled one of the pictures down froave it a long look and then strode back over and shoved the picture into her hands

She stared down at the twofor the camera Tony stood a few inches shorter than the man next to hiirls’ knees to jelly and made their mothers worry

“I fucked up, and because of that, Keith died I couldn’t walk away from even the slimmest of leads And your dads were all I had”

She stopped his words with an upraised hand “Back up and start again”

“Keith and I grew up together He was at ht as well have been brothers When we got partnered up together on vice, we had a snitch who happened to

be a photographer He told us about athe rapher assistants”

Nothing shocking in s More than one used cocaine to keep their weight down to an insane level, deal with the hectic hours, and let off steah added zero calories to their daily diet, unlike alcohol or chocolate cake Ugly but true

“And you thought Henry and Anton were dealers?” Not likely Anton had been clean for more than a decade by the time she estimated Tony’s partner died

“We traced a delivery to BC Designs Then another About teeks before Keith died, we got word so with the cocaine So their o in”

“Emily Rossi” Her heartbeat sped as she reular at the BC Designs shows She’d been Harbor City’s runway darling until she’d stepped in front of the nu her every move