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It made Eve shiver She couldn’t understand why a ertips would actually choose cold showers She opened the drying tube and coh her unstyled cap of hair She used so at her, brushed her teeth

“You don’t have to get up because I am”

“I’m up,” Roarke said si tube “Do you have time for breakfast?”

Eve watched his reflection in thelater”

He hooked the towel around his waist, shook back his dripping mane of hair, cocked his head “Yeah?”

“I guess I like looking at you, too,” she muttered and went into the bedroom to dress for death

Street traffic was light Airbuses ruht shift workers ho day shifters to work Billboards were quiet and the ubiquitous glida grills and carts with their offerings of food and drink were already setting up for the day Sh the vents in streets and sidewalks froround world of transportation and retail The air steamed

Eve headed across town, ood time

The section of Madison where a body waited for her was pocked with exclusive boutiques and silvery spears of buildings fashioned to house those who could afford to shop there The skywalks were glassed in to separate the clientele froin to boom within an hour or two

Eve passed a taxi with a lone passenger The elegant blonde wore a glittery jacket, a sparkling rainbow of color in the dingy light Licensed cohter The wealthy could afford to buy fancy sex along with their fancy clothes

Eve swung into an underground garage at the scene, flashed her badge for the security post It scanned it, scanned her, then the light blinked froned to her

It was, of course, at the far end of the facility fronation as she hoofed it, aren’t given optimum spaces

Eve recited the number of the unit into the speaker box and hisked up

There had been a ti before, when she would have been ihth floor, with its pool of scarlet hibiscus and bronze statuary That was before she’d entered Roarke’s world She scanned the s the entrance and realized that it was highly possible that her husband owned the building

She spotted the unifore