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She shook her head “My name is Jen Gardiner”

Chapter Twenty-Six

For a moht a wounded animal

“So what’s your story?” I asked, once I’d found ue

As she drew near, I was able to uilt

“Who are you?” she asked A fair question

“I was hired to find a , I ran across a dead body and someone tried to kill me”

“I don’t know anything about that,” Jen said Her gaze darted toward Weis and snapped back to me

I stood up and backed away from Weis He scuttled back and kept an eye on me, as he rose to his feet

“How about we sit down and have a chat?” I said

Jen nodded and looked at Weis, who shrugged Jen led the way toward a small kitchen, with Weis behind her and me in the rear

“Coffee?” Jen asked I nodded She grabbed a half-filled carafe off the burner and poured three ar, soy milk, fancy flavors—all that crap), we took our places around the vintage Formica dinette We made a cozy threesome

After a et the conversational ball rolling “Let ht Are the pictures on my phone of fake artifacts?”

Jen began to answer but hesitated Weis touched her ar erous as field mice

I sighed “Can you at least tellthey’re fake?”