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“Then I’ll let you go”
“Thank you, Carey”
“Any time, Vannah Banana”
He hung up before she could scold him, and she smiled
“Carey?” Clark asked
“Yeah He wanted to ot home okay”
“How nice of him”
There was an edge to his words “Clark?”
“I have to go—” He disappeared before she could say more
“Fuck” She placed her head in her hands Carey saved her froer and I would be ? There was no future for the was a mind-screwI have to stay composed She removed the rest of her clothes, slipped on an oversized shirt, and sank n to the edge of her bed, unable to sleep yet Thoughts chased each other The eered all the hard work she’d put in over the years She had a system that worked Her heart was protected, and her life ran s ball Frustrated, she turned to the solace she could always count on, work
So ot to her feet and zo out a sheet of loose-leaf and a pencil, she began an old-school bubble hts She put main points in circles and branched out with lines and an to fill with randoht
“You are slippery sons of bitches, aren’t you?” she ive them that It made her apprehensive People like this always had a trick up their sleeves, booby traps, or diversions It wasn’t your average case
She didn’t want any more people hurt The devil’s in the details The phrase always helped her dig deep beneath the obvious The Tarot was the key, but she only had one card to ith They’d tracked down the specific set of cards, scanned each one for differences, and cas etched into theh the piles To , circling the area like buzzards waiting for an animal to drop
She pushed the ages aside, and pulled out the Tarot Cards she’d purchased to study at ho her work hoency she couldn’t ignore As she studied The Lover’s card, the ue report rushed back The interlocked female and male symbols were the key They were on the Tarot
Excited, she snatched up the card The symbols were in direct correlation It would still take soo over the cards, pick out key synificantly It felt good to ress on this case The fact that it distracted her from the mess with Clark was an added bonus