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As he walked out, Peabody touched her fingertips to her lips Pleasure had radiated down to her toes and out through the reinforced tips of her boots “OhI’m beautiful, Dallas”

“I owe you, Peabody”

“I think I just got paid” She stepped back to the door “Here coet our boy out of here Tell Mavis she was absolutely ultra”

“Mavis” Eve pressed her fingers to her eyes Hoas she going to tell Mavis?

“If I were you, Dallas, I’d give her tonight to glow You can tell her about this later She’ll be fine In here,” she called, gesturing “We got us what looks like a mild concussion”

chapter sixteen

Getting a warrant for search and seizure at two in the htforward data to cop an autoes tended to be cranky about calls in theto explain why she needed clearance for a sweep and scan of a music console currently on her own premises was a dicey job

This being the case, Eve tolerated the clipped, angry lecture froe of choice

“I understand that, Your Honor But this can’t wait until a decent hour in thesuspicion that the console in question is linked to the deaths of four people Its designer and operator is currently being detained, and I cannot expect his immediate cooperation”

“You’re telling e snorted “I could have told you that The crap they’re pu out these days could steen, Live, Cult Killers That was music”

“Yes, sir” She rolled her eyes She’d had to pick a classic music buff “I really need that warrant, Your Honor Captain Feeney is available to begin the initial scan The operator had adally, on the record I need more to tie it to the cases in question”

“You ask me, those music consoles should be banned and burned This is piddly shit here, Lieutenant”

“Not if the evidence bears out my belief that this console and its operator are linked to the death of Senator Pearly and others”

There was a pause, a wheeze “That’s a big leap No pun intended”

“Yes, sir I need the warrant to bridge the gap”