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“Maybe that’s the plan exactly, and they’re throwing you off the scent”

“It’s possible Anyithout Towers as buffer, speculation’s running that Angelini and Hammett will dissolve their business associations They were very cool to each other, never spoke during the service—before or after it, either”

“How do you know?”

Nadine selini needs income, and fast Roarke’s made him an offer for his shares, which now include Towers’s interest, in Mercury”

“Has he?”

“You didn’t know Interesting” Sly as a cat, Nadine licked cru, too, that you didn’t attend the service with Roarke”

“I was there in an official capacity,” Eve said shortly “Let’s stick to the point”

“More trouble in paradise,” Nadine murmured, then her eyes sobered “Look, Dallas, I like you I don’t knohy, but I do If you and Roarke are having problems, I’m sorry for it”

Buddy-to-buddy confidences were so Eve was never comfortable with She shifted, surprised that she was tempted, even for an instant, to share Then she set it down to Nadine’s skill as a reporter “The point,” she repeated

“Okay” Nadine moved a shoulder and took another bite of ot speculation Angelini’s financial difficulties, the son’s ga habits, the Fluentes case”

“You can forget the Fluentes case,” Eve interrupted “He’s going down Both he and his lawyer know it The evidence is clean Taking Towers out won’t change a thing”

“He ht have been pissed”

“Maybe But he’s small time He doesn’t have the contacts or the money to buy a hit the size of Towers It doesn’t check out We’re running everybody she ever put away So far we’ve got zip”

“You’ve cooled off on the revenge theory, haven’t you?”

“Yeah I think it was closer to home”