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“My dad wasthan Shirley Temple, so I learned how to shoot”

Brianna took her hand back and studied me, and suddenly I could see that s work out You grow up to be a cop, and I grow up to be a Realtor that meets her husband on the job”

“Things work out, I guess,” I said, “and if you could give us the nae, we’ll get out of your hair”

“And the time you arrived and left the club,” Olaf said from the couch

I glanced behindthat he was still there while I was holding a baby and re to a different life from the one that had my mother and Shirley Temple marathons in it

Brianna gave us the inforirls continued to hold the babies Noriven Heidi back to her mom, but she seemed content, and Clara was happy in her ical to keep the babies happy and quiet while we got the rest of the inforic, not that so the baby

I handed Heidi back to her mother at the door, so Brianna had a baby in each ared them to wave bye-bye Clara waved first and then Heidi I waved back to theet in Olaf’s rental He threw a hand up in their direction, whichShe was going to be the smart one

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I CALLED EDWARD froht to voice mail, so I texted him If they didn’t need us to question the second friend, we’d head to the strip club to try to get an address for the dancer as part of Jocelyn’s alibi I punched the address of the strip club into my phone so we could find it We’d have to start there to find the dancer since they all used stage names

I wasn’t sure how I felt about taking Olaf to a strip club It was like taking the fox to the chicken coop and trusting he wouldn’t eat any of theiven his word he would behave himself Either I trusted him to keep his word, or I didn’t After the intervieith Brianna, it just seened to test his limits

“You enjoyed holding the baby,” Olaf said, and there was so in his voice that I wasn’t sure of: accusation, surprise?

I fought not to squirure out what to say “It wasn’t awful,” I said finally, and even to me it sounded lame

Olaf rowl “Are you lying to me or yourself?”

“I’ I just don’t knohat to say, okay?”

“This makes you uncomfortable,” he said