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“As I testified, the next thing I re up in some filthy little rooy Security came in I must have called them They took pictures I was assured the pictures were destroyed after the case was closed and I was exonerated I barely knew the wo up “I’d picked her up in the bar—or thought I had My attorney discovered she was a professional co the casinos”

He closed his eyes “Do you think I want Mirina to know that I was, however briefly, accused ofan unlicensed whore?”

“No,” Eve said quietly “I don’t i to keep her Anything at all”

Ha for her the moment she stepped out of the commander’s office The hollows in his cheeks seerayer

“I’d hoped to have a moment, Lieutenant—Eve”

She gestured behind her, let him slip into the room first, then closed the door on the murmurs of conversation

“This is a difficult day for you, George”

“Yes, very difficult I wanted to ask, needed to knowIs there anythingat all?”

“The investigation’s proceeding There’s nothing I can tell you that you wouldn’t have heard through the media”

“There must be ”

She could feel pity, even when there was suspicion “Everything that can be done is being done”

“You’ve interviewed Marco, her children, even Randy If there is anything they knew, anything they told you that ht to be told”

Nerves? she wondered Or grief? “No,” she said quietly, “you don’t I can’t give you any inforative procedure”

“We’re talking about the murder of the wo dark “We ht have been married”

“Were you planning to be e?”