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“Beth and Richard are , Eve And I don’t like knowing Beth is bla herself”

She reht, I can accept that Who have you talked to?”

“Friends, as I said, acquaintances, business associates” He set his coffee aside as Eve sipped hers and paced “Odd, isn’t it, how many different opinions and perceptions you find on one woenerous Ask another and she was vindictive, calculating Still another saw her as a party addict who could never find enough excites on her own Quite a role player, our Sharon”

“She wore different faces for different people It’s coh”

“Which face, or which role, killed her?” Roarke took out a cigarette, lighted it “Blackrant strea into people and could dispense considerable char it”

“And she dispensed it on you”

“Lavishly” That careless se inforhter and a professional, she wouldn’t have appealed to me in that way I prefer a different type” His eyes rested on Eve’s again, broodingly “Or thought I did I haven’t yet figured out why the intense, driven, and prickly type appeals to me so unexpectedly”

She poured more coffee, looked at hi”

“It wasn’t hted hairdresser and doesn’t choose the standard enhancely easy to look at”

“I don’t have a hairdresser, or time for enhancements” Or, she decided, the inclination to discuss them “To continue the deduction If Sharon DeBlass was murdered by one of her blackmail victims, where does Lola Starr come in?”

“A proble “They don’t appear to have anything in common other than their choice of profession It’s doubtful they knew each other or shared the same taste in clients Yet there was one who, at least briefly, knew them both”

“One who chose them both”

Roarke lifted a brow, nodded “You put it better”

“What did youinto?”

His hesitation was so brief, so smoothly covered, it was barely noticeable “I’m not sure if you understand the power DeBlass has or can use The scandal of his granddaughter’s murder could add to it He wants the presidency, and he wants to dictate the mood and moral choices of the country and beyond”