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"Look up" When she did, he said "That is a security camera we installed last week after your visit, e found three of your brother’s fingers broken It has recorded everything you have done to him today"

"I don’twith pleasure "Would you like to help? I’ to be so rich"

"Did you intend to harm your brother?"

Part of Diane, the sly, careful part, wanted to deny it Money was a privateto be kept in the fa Boys will be boys will be boys will be boys will be boys

The other part of her was lost in the sweet, soft fragrance of the flowers The perfuer, and then she couldn’t help herself

"I have to do it," she told hi to a childish octave "Daniel was bad and wet the bed He has all the ree I don’t want a husband"

The hand moved to her shoulder and turned her Diane smiled at him as she fell into his eyes, so beautiful and clean, like cool, pure water

"What else have you done to your brother?" he asked

Diane breathed in, and in a dreaan with the cocaine she had bought and carefully doctored to induce Daniel’s stroke Then she told hi else

It took a very long time

Two men in uniform came into the room, and one of them pulled her hands behind her and put cold hed at the careful way they handled her, their hands gentle and kind, as if she were the sick one Couldn’t they see that she was fine, now that he was here?

One of the uniforhts, and asked her if she understood thehts, not as far as Daddy was concerned, but said she did, and they walked with her out of Daniel’s room

Diane frohen she couldn’t s her from the doorway

Such a beautiful olden hair gleamed as he shook his head

Diane understood why he didn’t want her She had told so many lies She knehy It hurt so much, too

Women can’t handle important business

"Don’t worry," she said to him before they took her away "Danny will look afterHarper carried a basket of pale apricot roses into the staff room, where half of the afternoon shift took their dinner break

"I knew there was so to two other nurses She shook three packets of sugar into her coffeeand took a miniquiche out of the microwave "Nobody that rich comes to visit a brain-dead brother three tiive me the creeps, that lady," Sonia Salavera added as she reached into the lounge fridge for a Diet Coke to go with the sandwiches she’d brought froht in her eyes?" She mimed a violent shudder

"You can’t tell that so at them, Sonia" Martha Hopkins, head nurse of ward seven, poured a dollop of ski black tea she favored "She is such a beautiful wohed "Noe knohy"

Sonia blew soet all the , who had busied herself with replacing the wilting flowers in the table vases "Hey, Lili, do you know? About Mr Lindquist’s sister? They took her away last night in handcuffs She want tohad noticed the beautifully groomed woman who had strenuously avoided even the uessed that Daniel’s sister had been the source of his pain, or she would have done so to stop it

Guilt still pulled at her "Is Mr Lindquist going to be all right?"