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“Don’t tell me you forgot.”
“No, of course not.”Shit. Iforgot.Jane paused, her attentionsnagged by Frost, who was waving the call log printout. “Ma, I gotta go. Frost needs me.”
“Oh, and tell that nice Barry Frost to come too.” Angela paused. “Even if it means we have to put up with his wife.”
Jane hung up and looked at Frost. “You and Alice are invited to dinner at my mom’s house next Saturday. Leg of lamb. Is Alice still on that weird diet?”
“She can eat around the meat. But take a look at this.” He pointed to an entry near the end of the phone log. “This call she made here, May nineteenth, eighta.m.Massachusetts area code. It lasted sixteen minutes.”
“Sixteen minutes. That wouldn’t have been a wrong number.”
“And it’s long enough to be a significant conversation. I’ve already tried calling it, but there’s no answer.”
“Let’s try again.”
Already she could feel her pulse quicken as she reached for her desk phone and dialed the number. It rang only once, then an anonymously electronic voice answered:The person you are trying to reach is unavailable at this time…
“Still no answer.” Jane hung up and frowned at the call log. “There’s no name attached to this number.”
“That’s because it’s a burner phone,” said Frost.
