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“Lovely,” Mira said with a slow, easy smile “Romantic Why does romance worry you?”

“It doesn’t I— Okay, it scares the shit out ofso someone look at ”

“Why is that?”

“Because I haven’t done anything to make him care about me as much as he does I know he does”

“Eve, your self-worth has always been focused on your job Now a relationship has forced you to begin evaluating yourself as a woman Are you afraid of what you’ll find?”

“I haven’t figured that out It’s always been the job The highs and lows, the rush, theI needed to be was there I busted ure I can sweatthe job was it, all of it It was important to be the best, to make a mark It’s still important, but it’s not all anymore”

“I would say, Eve, that you’ll be a better cop, and a better wole focus limits us, and can too often obsess us A healthy life needs oal, one passion”

“Then I guesshealthier”

Eve’s co her that she was on the clock, a cop first “Dallas”

“You’re going to want to switch over to public broadcast, Channel 75,” Feeney announced “Then get your butt back here to the Towe

r The new chief wants to fry our asses”

Eve cut hi screen They came in on C J Morse’s noon update

“continuing probleation of the murders A Cop Central source has confired with obstruction of justice, and reelini, the accused’s father, has confessed to those elini Exports and for Attorney Cicely Towers, surrendered to the police yesterday Though he has confessed to all three ed, and the police continue to hold David Angelini”

Morse paused, shifted slightly to face a new cale His pleasant, youthful face radiated concern “In other develop a police search has proven through testing not to be the hter of the late Cicely Towers, spoke to this reporter in an exclusive interview this ”

The screen snapped to a new video and filled with Mirina’s lovely, outraged face “The police are persecuting h that my mother is dead, murdered on the street Now, in a desperate attempt to cover their own ineptitude, they’ve arrestedmy father It wouldn’t surprise me to find myself taken away in restraints at any moment”