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“Have we got the security discs logged yet from the lobby and elevator cameras?”
“I loaded theh ten-fifty-one on your unit”
“Let’s take a look” Eve booted her machine, leaned back in her chair
Peabody scanned thethat both of the, after all, working side by side with the top homicide detective at Cop Central Dallas would sneer at that, Peabody thought, but it was true She’d been following the career of Eve Dallas for years, and there was no one she admired or wished more to emulate
The biggest shock of Peabody’s life was that somehow, over the course of a few short months, they had come to be friends as well
“Stop” Eve sat up straight as the trans the building at twenty-two fifteen “Well, well, there’s our Leanore, slipping by”
“She had the time fairly close Ten fifteen”
“Yeah, she’s on the ue around her teeth “What do you think, Peabody? Business or pleasure?”
“Well, she’s dressed for business” Peabody cocked her head and allowed a faint trail of envy to curl up her spine at Leanore’s spiffy three-piece suit “She’s carrying a briefcase”
“A briefcase—and a bottle of wine Enhance quadrant D, thirty to thirty-five An expensive bottle of wine,” Eve murmured when the screen popped and displayed the label clearly “Roarke’s got sooes for about two hundred”
“A bottle? Wow”
“A glass,” Eve corrected, a doesn’t fit Resume normal size and speed, shift to elevator ca as Leanore took a gold compact out of her embossed briefcase, powdered her nose, freshened her lipstick as the elevator climbed “And lookie there, just flipped open the top three buttons of her blouse”
“Getting ready for a ed when Eve slanted a look at her “I’d guess”
“I’d guess, too” Together, they watched Leanore stride down the foyer on the thirty-eighth floor and buzz herself into Fitzhugh’s apartment Eve increased the time delay until Foxx strode out fifteen minutes later “Doesn’t look happy, does he?”
“No” Peabody narrowed her eyes “I’d say he looks ticked off” She lifted her brohen Foxx kicked bad temperedly at the elevator door “Very ticked off”