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“Is that your way of squir out of the opera?”

Eve got in the car, stretched out her legs “No, that’s just a little side benefit Let’s run by her place, okay? She’s on Eightieth between Second and Third”

“All right But you have no excuse to squirht”

“Cocktail party? What cocktail party?”

“The one I arranged fully a o,” he reminded her as he slipped in beside her “To kick off the fund-raiser for the Art Institute on Station Grireed to attend and to help host”

She reht home some fancy dress she was supposed to wear “Wasn’t I drunk when I agreed? The word of a drunk is worthless”

“No, you weren’t” He smiled as he skim, and I believe very close to begging”

“Bull” Actually, she thought, folding her arht The details were hazy “Okay, okay, I’ll be there, I’ll be there with a stupid smile in some fancy dress that cost you toocomes up”

“So?”

She sighed He only asked her to do one of his silly gigs when it was ient police business Barring that, I’ll stick for the whole fussy mess”

“I don’t suppose you could try to enjoy it?”

“Maybe I could” She turned her head and on impulse lifted a hand to his cheek “A little”

chapter eighteen

No one answered the buzzer at Nadine’s door The recording requested sie, which would be returned at the earliest possible time

“She could be in there brooding,” Eveon her heels as she considered “Or she could be at souard plenty over the past few days She’s a slick one, our Nadine”