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Casey took all that in “I’ll need to meet the three of them later when the masses have left their sides”

“No problem I’ll make it happen”

The next half hour was spent with Madeline introducing her “friends” and discussing her accident hat seeested that Madeline get as many introductions as possible out of the way before the cerele comfortably and do their own behavioral analysis as the event unfolded, while Madeline paid the appropriate respect to Ronald Lexington’sany suspicions of herhere

On the other hand, Casey had also instructed Madeline to be up front about who her FI “plus-ones” were Much to their chagrin, Forensic Instincts team members had been interviewed too many tinize them Candor was their best defense

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to re Mark Twain “In this case, you’ll just tweak the truth to make it work for us Explain that while you were a nurse in Bethesda, you treated Marc for an injury he sustained, and that, ironically, you ran into each other again in New York And tell them that Claire and I were both recently patients in this hospital We received excellent care and wanted to support the facility with a donation” Casey stopped right there The reasons for hers and Claire’s hospital ads she wanted to discuss, nor did she need to The details were no secret The media had made sure of that

“As for Emma,” Casey had concluded, “she’s fascinated by thethat bysomeone in hospital administration, she could land a candy-striper job”

Emma hadn’t blinked She knew her dual roles in today’s visit

Madeline didn’t, but she’d accepted Casey’s strategy at face value “So, when you heard Marc was co, you all opted to join him, each for your own reasons”

“Exactly We gave you a call, you offered to bring us as your guests, and that’s that”

“Okay That works”

And it had NoForensic Instincts was, the crowd of hospital e about Madeline’s misfortunes and the severity of her injuries

That gave the FI team the access they needed

Their agendas had been laid out by Casey

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Claire, keeping a low profile, moved about and stopped here and there to hover near clusters of people Sipping her sparkling water, she listened, seeing if she picked up any negative energy There was plenty to be had