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As if he’d ever do either

“The business is doing fine,” he said now There was no way she was co this job on the side As a favor It’s just one room”

“A favor? Who is this woman? What do you owe her? Levi knows her, too? Who is she?”

The string of words that went through his mind, self-directed, weren’t pretty Or kind “I don’t really know her,” he said now, thinking of Kacey “We justfor a room to be built for her sister As a birthday present”

“Is she young?”

“You know I’e, and I haven’t paid any attention, in any case”

“What does she look like?”

“Definitely not one of a kind, I can tell you that I don’t know, Tress If you want me to take notes next tiet the work done and get out of there”

“Is she pretty?”

He thought of Kacey “Not that I’ve noticed” Not like Lacey was

“Do you like her?”

“I don’t know

her, Tress Please, can we stop this? I’ll call Sydney to on I’ain “Last time they visited both of us within hours of each other I’m sure they’d have been here to question me this weekend if there was a problem”

Tressa’s silence was a blessing Not only because she wasn’t co down

Then she said, “I wonder what happened to that Lacey woman Can you ask to have her put back on our case? I liked her”