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And that was the day that Reyes Farrow’s kidnapping fell into my lap He was the child who had been abducted allanced down at the file stuffed between my seat and the console So much potential there So much heartache

"Don’t you think?"

I blinked back to Aunt Lil "Think what?"

"That he’s been blessed"

"Oh, yeah, I do" I couldn’t help another glance "But it’s just so … there So unavoidable" I tore aze away and pointed to his tat "So, the na any bells?"

"No, but I can do so of which, I have an idea I want to run past you"

I shifted around so I could see her better "Shoot"

"I think we should work together" She ja through the seat to poke ht chuckle

"Ha! I kneas a good idea" Her face brightened, the grayish tones of life after death lightening just a little

It could work We could be the Dynah I’d alanted to do good deeds in a red cape Or, at the very least, aanother sip of my now lukewarm mocha latte--which was better than noto draw a salary?"

"The way I see it, we should split the take fifty–fifty"

I stifled a grin "That’s the way you see it, huh?"

"Oh, and we probably need code naestion h the coughs

"And code phrases like, ‘The sun never sets in the east’ That could rab a bite to eat before the h

"Or it could et blood out of silk?’ Because as PIs, we’ll need to know stuff like that"

"I’ain, and I turned back to the Foster house "Blood can be stubborn" Maybe I should just walk up and knock on the door I could say I was helping a friend with an old case I could ask if there were any new developments we hadn’t been informed of I could ask if they knew that theten years for a crime he didn’t commit was their son I could ask if they knehat he’d been through, what he’d suffered at the hands of the uilt on top of guilt do anybody?