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My cell dinged and I checked es

LARA: Oh, God Usually, the station would have come to me for comment or the chance to kill the story with a nice juicy payuess not

Lara was right If we had known that the station had the video, we could have stopped the video fro public Obviously, the news station felt the video would earn the dollars and publicity than any money I could pay them to stop its release

DRAKE: What is our response?

LARA: I'm busy but I'll call you later Take it easy, Drake I'll take care of this Don't stress tooelse on top of what you already have on your plate I don't want you stroking out over this

Again, Lara was the voice of wisdom

DRAKE: You're right of course I'll shut off the television and relax You can callyou think I need to know

LARA: Goodyour baby Kiss Kate Sleep

I put my cell away and turned off the coested

"What are you doing?" Kate asked, wide-eyed

"I' off the computer and television I don't need this," I said and went to her,her face, which was pale with concern "Neither of us need this Lara will foro to your studio and paint, and I'll rest while Karen takes Sophie for the afternoon This will all soon be over and we'll be back to the way things were before all this happened"

I kissed Kate and she closed her eyes and leaned into my arms

"You're right," she said softly

I hoped I was

Kate and I ate a quiet lunch, our talk limited to our planned trip to Bahamas, to the hotel we stayed at that first weekend