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“You think they fought about her?”

“Yes, I do I wish I knehy”

Marc was quiet for a moment “That bruise wasn’t fresh It could have happened a few days ago”

Claire understood where he was going with this “Such as right after Casey had lunch with Janet”

“Yup Maybe that lunch pissed so these hallowed halls, where shethey would prefer remained hidden”

Claire and Marc slowed down as they reached the subway stop and hurried down the steps to catch the next train

“Janet has no intention of staying away fro her voice as low as she could for Marc to hear her over the throngs of peoplea dinner with Casey Plus, she was superfriendly to us, too Clearly whoever struck her didn’t scare her off”

“That doesn’t rossly underesti her enemy”

So “I’ht”

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THE FI TEAM was, yet again, gathered around the conference table, reviewing all the updated infor had yielded Patrick had rejoined theuard Madeline and doubling up security for Conrad at Crest Haven

Ryan was conspicuously absent

“What’s the deal with Ryan?” Marc asked “I heard hi all the way from the basement What’s he up to?”

“Playing with his toys,” Claire supplied

No one even blinked They all knew that when Ryan was überfrustrated or pissed, he went to the robot section of his lair and tried out some of his new techno creations