law firm, the noisy open-plan office went dead silen
ble floor in her stilettos, ignoring the c
a rapped her knuckles twice against the w
vestigation report an
wna shrunk her neck like a guilty quail and hur
drop the Venetian blinds, cutt
she leaned both hands on her mahogany des
hat did
and handed over the f
wear I didn't mean to put you on speaker, m
" Calista cut her off briskly, pull
showing the black Aston Martin pulling into a gated
g the top photo. "Where is the woman
ok her he
uldn't catch anything inside. And the security around that Long Island estate
ched the bridge of her nose; to protect that woman,
e her, he naturally covered his tracks," Calista s
k, scribbled a string of zeros with her fountain pen, an
the check and her e
what is
ng her arms over her chest. "Drop every non-urgent case on your desk. Within se
ck, Dawna snapped her spine straight,
s hiding her inside the Pentag
estigator, calling in every favor she had across the city and tappi
st into Calista's office without knock
I found th
he desk and pointed at a blin
e time-seven o'clock every evening-outside a
and grabbed her trench coat
atch them i
s unremarkable second-hand Toyota, parked in the sh
ily against the windshield, bl
a V12 engine, the familiar black Aston Martin glided into
her breathing shallow as she prepared to fina
nd a long leg clad in bespoke suit trou
ted with a telephoto lens and be
under the glow of the streetlamp, both
h cropped dark chestnut hair and a jagged sc
directly toward the second-hand Toyota across the stree
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