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“The night you and Roarke came by the studio to watch the session Seeer to leave, to be alone” His smile sharpened at the corners “A little honeymoon revisited?”
She kept her hands behind the desk a lanced over toward the door of Roarke’s connecting office, and saith a jolt that the reen over it
He atching, she realized That was not only illegal, but dangerous under the circumstances She flicked her eyes back to Jess She couldn’t afford to break rhythm “It seems you’re unusually interested in my sex life”
“I told you, you fascinatesteel, with all these dark spaces burned into it I wonder ould happen if you opened those spaces And sex is a master key” He leaned forward, eyes locked on hers “What do you dream, Dallas?”
She reht she’d watched the disc of Mavis The disc he’d given her Her hands trembled once before she could control them “You son of a bitch” She rose slowly, planted her hands on the desk “You like giving demonstrations, asshole? Is that what Mathias was to you? A demonstration?”
“I told you, I don’t knoho that is”
“Maybe you needed an autotron tech to perfect your system Then you tried it out on hira his own noose and slipping it around his neck, or did you leave the method up to him?”
“You just veered way out of orbit”
“And Pearly? What’s the connection there? Political state ahead? You’re a real visionary He’d have tossed his weight against legalizing your new toy Why not use it on him?”
“Hold it Hold it” He got to his feet “You’re talking aboutto wrap me up with murder”
“Then Fitzhugh Did you need a couple et a taste for it? Powerful, isn’t it, being able to kill without getting your hands bloody?”
“I never killed anyone You can’t wrap this on me”
“Devane was a bonus, with the ot to watch I bet you really love to watch, don’t you, Jess? I bet you got hot watching Like you got hot thinking about where you’d push Roarke tonight with your goddamn toy”
“That’s what’s rocking you, isn’t it?” Furious, he leaned on the desk His sme I bet the two of you fucked like wild minks”
Her hand was in a fist, her fist slaistered the act He went down like a stone, face first, ar