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“Well, here’s to it” In toast, Eve lifted her glass

“I didn’t know you were coht” Mavis punched her code into the menu and ordered bubble water She had to baby her throat for the next set

“I’ someone”

“Roarke?” Mavis’s eyes, currently green, shone “Is he coain”

“He’s in Australia I’ Nadine Furst”

Mavis’s disappointment at the opportunity to i a reporter? On purpose?”

“I can trust her” Eve lifted a shoulder “I can use her”

“If you say so Hey, you think maybe she’d do a piece on me?”

Not for worlds would Eve have extinguished the light in Mavis’s eyes “I’ll mention it”

“Decent Listen, to someplace?”

“If I canthat performance artist—the one with the pet monkey”

“Flicked hier over her bare shoulder “He was just too static Gotta go” She slid out of the booth, her butt decor leah the crowd

Eve decided she didn’t want to knohat Mavis considered too static

When her communicator hummed, Eve pulled it out and punched in her code Roarke’s face filled the hted smile

“Lieutenant, I’ve tracked you down”