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"I know a lot of es"

"Yes, but only casually Name five that you can talk to any tiged, suddenly frustrated "Okay, fine Bruno John Creede Bubba--though he’s not ain "Um,Who else? Terrance Harris, with the police No, that’s too casual Iv … no, he’s dead But wait Could it be a recently deceased ic together on the other side?"

Bruno and Dr Sloan both looked at each other; then Bruno shrugged "I would have said no until today It’s uncharted territory, I’m afraid, Celia Who died?"

"His na Dahlmar of Rusland He was killed just before Christmas He had the oomph to pull off an illusion like the rubber tree one you did inbox, coht about it seriously for ato say no Perhaps if he’d died last week But no, that’s far too long Let’s concentrate on the living"

"I knoho it could be" Dawna’s voice surprised s by os ht about it, Celia You amuse him He said so at the mall" Her lip turned up in a smile that reminded me immediately

I sucked in a sharp breath "Jones John Jones"

Bruno looked confused, but Rizzoli swore under his breath "Of course He’s just crazy enough to try it Just for fun or to athers people, like a collector He’ll find your weaknesses and use theainst you for his own purposes"

I let out a chuckle "That’s already happened More than once" Jones had sort of blacket Kevin out of prison when Kevin had been illegally and secretly captured and held there There was so of so

Dr Sloan "So, for the ree that Jones is a likely candidate I’ve heard of hie" He turned to face my side of the table "Bruno, what happened at the hospital today? Were your tests clear?"

He shrugged "I gave Dr Gaetano a saliva sa But it’ll be a fewOther than that, I’ve been working with you on the table How about you, Celie?"

Wow Where to begin? "Uhtful "There’s not , and she knows all but a few details Okay, you’ve all heard the news about the outbreaks?" Everyone nodded "Well, we think they’re connected to bos at schools all over the country Unfortunately, we don’t have any suspects We’re looking for so, but they’ve disappeared"

"Not just the, too"

You could’ve heard a pin drop for about ten seconds; then all of theh clearest "You’re sure he hasn’t just gone off to do his thing like he does so off But I knew he had a special charency Nobody at the co, so he hadn’t broken it Were his sister and I getting worked up over nothing? Yeah, he really had a sister and her name was Gillian I’d done a Web check before I drove away fro Gillian every Saturday for breakfast and the area code of her call was the tohere John had said she lived

The door to the roo scents arrivedfood Barbara set my smoothie in front of me before any of the others were served and I took a happy sip through the straw She watchedthey were hot I would have coood--ave her a thu stopped for the next ten or soin A waitress caot a refill of rateful And I re else here I could eat They had flavored honey sticks to use on the sopapillas I loved letting those ue I ordered a sampler of them, but the waitress said they only came with the dessert So I ordered a dessert Soh er "I’ve been thinking about it If Creede isn’t using the ritual room in his office and isn’t at his house, then he probably has a hidey-hole somewhere Most of us have a safe place where nobody knows to look for us If so, he’s probably fine Just intent on his spell"

Actually, John did have one of those "His sister said she called there They hadn’t seen hih, realistically, he could have as h a mouthful of enchilada "He has the money and power to have a dozen hidey-holes all over the state No help there"

We were interrupted byThe stop at the grocery was just before the police pulledbut pull it fro of rice

I pressed the button to take the call "Celia Graves"