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"We ht yet There’s no confirlanced at her watch "I better get going I rang our client and arrange to meet her at a café in town at nine"

I frowned "Aren’t you pushing your sun limitations?"

She shook her head "It’s clouded over, and I’ll be sun-crea up"

Which didn’t mean she wouldn’t burn "Why not just ask her here?"

"Aside fro the corners of her slate-colored eyes "I thought she ht be less inclined to cry in a public place"

I snorted softly "You’re all heart"

"Totally Coht" She pushed up frooes"

"Ditto with the crier" I grinned "And hold your breath as you head downstairs Gutter humor was alive and hen I left"

"Another daers on," she said, then drew in a deep breath and quickly retreated down the stairs

I fired up es I’d taken of Keale The shot of the dragon, his body aflaht and mirrored in the Rialto’s as a stunner It alh the sky But it was the picture of hiht ed to take the shot from behind him just as the sun broke above the horizon, and the silver helicopter was practically lost in the sudden glare If I could hardly see it, then a dragon, with their poorer eyesight, certainly wouldn’t have If ever there was a shot thatthat helicopter, it was this one

I stared at it for severalHarris, my former boss Technically, I supposed I should have sent it to the police--and that’s certainly what Ceri would have advised--but I wasn’t above trying to sway the public’s opinion in Keale’s favor He needed all the help he could get on this one

Surprisingly, Greg’s response was almost immediate and, for once, he didn’t quibble at the cost Obviously, no staff photographers had e of any newspaper usually guaranteed at least an extra ten thousand newspapers sold

I waited until I had confirmation that the fee had been transferred to my account, then sent him the full picture With that all settled, I pulled Lyle’s card from my pocket and opened a separate file to upload therapher, that was for sure There were only five shots on the card--four of theovernrey All were blurred, as if taken on the run

I blew out a frustrated breath, then opened Photoshop and began working on the i rese clarity I ran off a couple of prints, then hoot a couple of prints of those, too Lyle could probably use his connections to grab the driver’s na

I studied the five ier, then frowned and enlarged thein the backof the car A passenger, or ?

I zoomed in The shadow definitely resembled the outline of a head rather than the shadow of a nearby building or pole I reselected the area, then played around with pixels, and shifted soe I didn’t have ed too ith the tint-darkened s

I sat back, contelass a different color, the darker head shape lass color to light grey, then hit re-assign all And as sie ju back at Mona’s house, and my stomach twisted I knew that profile, even if I didn’t know the man himself all that well In many respects, the profile was so very similar to the one I saw in the le of his aristocratic nose and a chin that was definitely more prominent than my own

This wasn’t any old elf This was the newly elected head of the Elven council, a h Court bench, and a statesovernment

My father, Charles Bra believable First Lyle’s case draws Val back into oddas were going, I wouldn’t be at all surprised

I scrubbed a hand across my eyes, then picked upto tell Lyle? For that nized his own da worse, but surely it couldn’t be that bad

Frowning, I studied hed and hit print In reality, it was probably fortunate that Lyle hadn’t recognized him, because I suspected he was a little unstable--at least emotionally--when it came to Mona He would have confronted Bramwell--both verbally and physically--and that could only have gone badly for Lyle This also explained the trolls being set onto hi the photos

Which meant I had to proceed with caution But it alsotoI wanted to do I ht not have much respect for ht think, I had no illusions that he held any deep affection for ht ofto set trolls onto his own brother, I could well iht I now had the photographs