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“Yeah Son of a bitch”

Marco Angelini was like a boulder cee Two hours of intense interrogation didn’t shake his story Though, Eve consoled herself, he hadn’t shored up any of the holes in it, either At the moment, she had little choice but to pin her hopes on Mira’s report

“I can tell you,” Mira said in her usual unruffled fashion, “that David Angelini is a troubled young ence and protection”

“Tellhis mother’s throat”

“Ah” Mira sat back and folded her neat hands “What I can tell you is, infro and averaging his placey Evaluations—”

“Can we skip over the psych buzz, Doctor? I can read that in the report”

“All right” Mira shifted away fro up the evaluations “We’ll keep this in si Your man is a liar, one who convinces himself with little effort that his lies are truth in order to ood opinion, even praise, and is accusto his oay”

“And if he doesn’t get his oay?”

“He casts blame elsewhere It is not his fault, nor his responsibility His world is insular, Lieutenant, comprised for the most part of himself alone He considers himself successful and talented, and when he fails, it’s because soambles because he doesn’t believe he can lose, and he enjoys the thrill of risk He loses because he believes hiame”

“Hoould he react at the risk of having his bones snapped over ga debts?”

“He would run and he would hide, and being abnormally dependent on his parents, he would expect them to clean up the mess”

“And if they refused?”

Mira was silent for a moment “You want me to tell you that he would strike out, react violently, even murderously I can’t do that It is, of course, a possibility that can’t be ruled out in any of us No test, no evaluation can absolutely conclude the reaction of an individual under certain circumstances But in those tests and those evaluations, the subject reacted consistently by covering, by running, by shifting bla the source of his problem”

“And he could be covering his reaction, to skew the evaluation”

“It’s possible, but unlikely I’m sorry”