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“You’ll always be the one in co as I’’s day to day operation, I need to knohat’s going on”

Mary reached for the phone and hit a button “Dan? Yes, it’sit up? All of it, yes Yes, thank you Right now”

She looked at Keir, then stood He leaped up and held out his hand but she smiled and brushed it aside

“I’entle but there was notone it carried Keir nodded and followed his h the doors that led onto the wide penthouse balcony and into the heat of

“Too hot?” she said, looking up at him

“Not if your rinned at her

“Your father always said the sao out into the sun, but I love the feel of it” She clasped the railing and looked at hiets here, you’ll read Dawn’s file Then we’ll talk”

“Can’t you tell me what’s in it?’

Mary shook her head “I’d rather you read it for yourself I’ht put my own emotional interpretation on the details”

His mother was never emotional when it ca by the lass doors and saw Jenny bringing Dan Coyle, the head of security, toward theining her as a refor his ht a person orth a chance, she’d offer it

Dan slid the door open Sixty-so as fit as if he were twenty years younger, Coyle was a lad he’d started a new career Keir and his mother had hired him two days after he’d retired from thirty years with the New York City police department as a captain of detectives, and Keir had never had a ood cop with an honest soul and a kind heart He was also the only uts to address Mary by her nicknaht wryly

Dan smiled as he shook Keir’s hand “Keir Duchess I see you’re both trying for heat stroke”

“I’d rather be trying out the deep-freeze, but you know my mother”

Both ood for you,” she said “For me, anyway It warms old bones”

“So I’ve been told,” Dan said lightly, “but I don’t see any old bones around here”