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“Lieutenant, you have no right to imply—”

She barely spared the lawyer a glance “I’htforward ry and jealous when he stor”

“I did not storm, I walked” Foxx fisted a hand on the table “And I had absolutely no reason to be angry or jealous of Leanore However often she chose to throw herself at Fitz, he was completely disinterested in her on that level”

“Ms Bastwick threw herself at Mr Fitzhugh?” Eve lifted her brows “Thatthat your spouse had no sexual preference beto the eek, having her come by, flaunt herself in front of hiry I’d have wanted to deck her”

“He thought it was a,” Foxx blurted out “He was actually flattered to have so for hihed when I complained about her”

“He laughed at you?” Eve kne to play the game Sympathy dripped in her voice “That must have infuriated you It did, didn’t it? It ate at you, didn’t it, Arthur, i at you”

“I could haveaway his lawyer’s restraining hands as fury spurted color into his face “She thought she could lure hiive a damn that ere married, that ere co lawyer”

“You don’t care much for lawyers, do you?”

His breath was shuddering He caught it, let it shudder out until it was even again “No, as a rule, I don’t I didn’t think of Fitz as a lawyer I thought of hi ht or any other, Lieutenant, I would have murdered Leanore”

He unfisted his hands, folded the more to say”

Gauging it to be enough for the ti, Eve terain, Mr Foxx”

“I’d like to knohen you’re going to release Fitz’s body,” he said, getting stiffly to his feet “I’ve decided not to postpone the service today, though it feels unsee held”

“That’s the decision of the medical examiner His tests are still incomplete”

“Isn’t it enough that he’s dead?” Foxx’s voice treh that he killed hi out the small and sordid personal details of our lives?”

“No” She walked to the door, released the code “No, it’s not” She hesitated, decided to take a stab in the dark “I ih was very shocked and very upset by the recent suicide of Senator Pearly”