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She didn’t care about freshening up She wanted a few minutes to sih she i his compusearch

He still had an hour to go before he lost his bottle of Irish She didn’t think it would hurt to re to code herself in, when Summerset melted out of the shadows behind her

“Lieutenant, you have a call, terent”

“Feeney?”

“He did not grant me his name,” Summerset said down his nose

“I’ll take it in here” She had the s the door close shts,” she ordered and th

e roohtened

She’d als and paper pages that crackled when you leafed through For once she didn’t give thelance as she hurried to the ’link on Roarke’s library desk

She engaged, then froze

“Surprise, surprise” Morse bea me All dressed up for your party, I see You look flash”

“I’ve been looking for you, C J”

“Oh yeah, I know You’ve been looking for a lot of things I know this is on record, and it doesn’t matter But you listen close You keep this between you andoff little tiny pieces of a friend of yours Say hi to Dallas, Nadine”

He reached out, and Nadine’s face came on screen Eve, who’d seen terror too many times to count, looked at it now “Has he hurt you, Nadine?”

“I—” She whimpered when he jerked her head back by the hair, touched a long slim blade to her throat

“Now, you tell her I’ve been real nice to you Tell her” He skimmed the flat of the blade over her throat “Bitch”