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“It’s just the clothes,” he said and then wished he’d bitten his tongue instead Literally “You probably noticed that Tressa puts a lot of emphasis on fashion”

“She told you I went to visit her?”

Right, because all he’d heard from Lacey after that was that the case had been disht have told her, which hy his usual way—to tell the truth—just worked best

“I was on the phone with her when you pulled up out front of her house”

“Did you tell her who I was?”

“No”

She took another bite of sandwich, seely unaffected by Levi’s unintentionally hurtful comment

“Why not?”

He’d just reuy “Because I didn’t want her to freak out on the phone” He popped a French fry into histo her was better, even if he was having toI told you about,” he continued as she chewed

“And also because I figured that if she had been the one who called you, she’d already knoho you were I kind of wanted to see how she handled you co to the door”

“To see if you could figure out if she knew me?”

“So like that”

“What was your conclusion?”

“Tressa didn’t call you”

He watched her carefully—very carefully—and still couldn’t discern if he’d hit on the truth He was sure he had, but not because of any indication he’d gathered from her