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He brought the car to a screeching halt at the curb, right beside a fire hydrant and a couple of kids who looked like they’d stepped out of a reality show about street gangs

Caleb took out his wallet, extracted two hundred-dollar bills and, tearing theave a half to each kid

“The car’s still here, untouched, when I coet the rest Understand?”

The kids grinned and nodded Caleb went past them, ran up the steps to the front door, pushed it open and raced up the stairs

Then he was standing outside Sage’s apartment

His heart was banging but it didn’t have a thing to do with his gallop up those stairs

What would he say to her? How could he convince her to stop being so stubborn?

Where was Logic-Man when he needed him?

He took a deep breath

The logic would coood talker, especially under pressure It was one of the reasons for his reputation as a hotshot litigator

Just do it, he told hi the doorbell

Sage had just come out of the shower

A shower that had been almost ice-cold

She’d wrapped herself in her robe, padded, barefoot, to the phone and called the super

“There’s no hot water,” she’d said, and he’d yawned and said yeah, he’d see what he could do, which she knew pretty ry and she unloaded on hi she had