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“Nana also left Kennedy her shotgun” She begins toher pile of clothes to the case before swinging back to the arle like wraiths trying to escape

How to play this? Explain this?

I lift my head when I sense her eyes on me

Holland Harper is beautiful when she’s frustrated

Subli

When she’s hiding her thoughts, she looks like someone else

“You’re not coh to take care of here You don’t need to involve yourself in my little life”

“That’s where you’re wrong” I push up from the sill “There is nowhere I’d rather be in this world than by your side”

“You already have a wife”

She looks so pale Barely hanging on to her hurt To see her hurt will hurt ned indifference

“No, actually, I don’t” I pause at the foot of her bed and hook my arm around one of the bottom posts

She shiitation, her hands jerky as she pulls at the hem of her shirt “Have I had a stroke? Or is this some kind of lucid dream? Because I swear, I just met the duchess downstairs”

“Hardly what I’d call an introduction,” I say, running h to satisfy an itch “And she’s certainly not a duchess The soirlfriend of a Russian mobster, perhaps She just said so herself”

“Girlfriend or not, she’s still your wife first”

“I beg to differ Pseudocide”

“What?” Holland’s hands find her hips, anger causing some cracks in her mask

“I’d never heard the word before ht it to me He’d taken a leave of absence froator examine the blackmail attempt They asked hi pseudocide Apparently, it’s increasingly common, but he told them that couldn’t be the case”

“That she couldn’t fake her death,” she deadpans “You mean like she has”

“Whether she faked her death or not, she’s no longer my problem”

“Oh, I’d say otherwise And I guess she would, too” Changing her stance, Holland wraps her arms around herself

“According to Scottish law, our ally dissolved the year she committed pseudocide As far as I was concerned, and as far as the courts are concerned, she was lost at sea, presumed dead under the Presumption of Death Act To say otherouldas I am In love with you”