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She walked up to her place, unlocked the door, and went in.
The voice told her not to move.
So Clarisse didn’t.
CHAPTER57
THE PLACE WAS DARK ANDit stayed dark.
Clarisse slowly took the Zippo containing the thumb drive from her pocket. She put it inside her jeans and then slipped it into her underwear, and finally secreted it inside herself. It hurt, but it might not hurt as much as what was about to come.
“Who are you? What are you doing in here?”
She observed movement to her right, a shadow only slightly darker than the dark.
“Up close and personal time,” said the voice. “And you know the who.” The shadow did not move. It didn’t have to. Clarisse indeed knew who it was.
“Mind telling me how you did it?”
The shadow moved closer. “Yes, I do mind. I don’t want you to reverse engineer. You were always damn good at that, better than me.”
“What do you want?” asked Clarisse.
“Obvious, right?”
“Not to me. I thought we had done the communication thing and knew where we stood.”
“Really? I’m disappointed. You were always quick on the uptake. You live by your wits. You falling down on the job now?”
“Wehadan arrangement, did we not?” said Clarisse.
“Maybe youthoughtwe had one.”
“You going rogue?”
“I was born rogue. I thought we all were.”
Clarisse shook her head. “No, not born, made. You know that.”
“Maybe.”
“BD?” she asked.
“What about him?”
“Why?” asked Clarisse.
“Why not?”
“You broke the rule on that one,” said Clarisse.
“I make my own rules now. Have for years.”
“Still, you didn’t have to do it. You just needed his ID for the van to take my mother.”
“There are things you never knew. Things I protected you from.”
“He was sweet. He was kind. He didn’t deserve that. He loved comic books!”
