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She stepped away from him, her face so filled with despair, Eve’s heart broke “I know you told o But I had to try again She an to speak quickly now, her words tuht have helped her if I’d asked hih tih time Neither did my child”

“All right,” Richard ht”

She controlled herself again, drew back, drew in “What can I do now, lieutenant, but pray for justice?”

“I’ll get you justice, Ms Barrister”

She closed her eyes and clung to that “I think you will I wasn’t sure of that, even after Roarke called me about you”

“He called you—to discuss the case?”

“He called to see hoere—and to tell ” She nearly s He told anized, and involved You are I’rateful I’ve had the opportunity to see that for hter’s ation”

“Ms Barrister,” Eve

hesitated only ato take the risk “What if I told you Roarke is a suspect?”

Elizabeth’s eyes ide, then cal an extraordinarily big wrong step”

“Because Roarke is incapable of murder?”

“No, I wouldn’t say that” It was a relief to think of it, if only for a moment, in objective terht kill cold-bloodedly, but never the defenseless He ht kill, I wouldn’t be surprised if he had But would he do to anyone as done to Sharon—before, during, after? No Not Roarke”

“No,” Richard echoed, and his hand searched for his wife’s again “Not Roarke”

Not Roarke, Eve thought again when she was back in her cab and headed for the underground Why the hell hadn’t he told her he’d met Sharon DeBlass as a favor to her mother? What else hadn’t he told her?

Blackmail Somehow she didn’t see hiive a daed things andmotive