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“I don’t know!”

“Sir Dallas Hey”

Eve opened her eyes, stared into Peabody’s wide ones “What? What is it?”

“You’re really pale Dallas, you look a little sick Maybe we should swing by a health center after all”

“I’ht” Her hands fisted hard until she felt herself steady again “I’m okay Just need some air” She ordered the n, started the car

And pushed the helpless young girl back into the darkest corner of her mind

CHAPTER TEN

Needs must when the devil drives I can’t remember who said that, but I don’t suppose it’s i dead now As Linus Quim is dead now

Needs ? Foolish, greedy Quim or myself?

Perhaps that’s not i back, no staging events to another outcoh to satisfy those sharp eyes of Lieutenant Dallas

She is an exacting audience and, I fear, the most severe of critics

Yes, with her in the house, I fear My perforesture, every nuance Or her vieill no doubt ruin me

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Motive and opportunity, Eve thought as she walked to her own front door Too many people had both Richard Draco would be memorialized the next day, and she had no doubt there would be a lavish display of grief, passionate and eies, copious tears

And it would all be just another show