“Janice pressed her forehead against the window as she tried to peer through the grayish clouds. Mike leaned over, fastened her seatbelt, gave a quick pat to her thigh and said, “You won’t be able to see your sister from here, honey.” He stretched out his legs, which felt too long and cramped in the meager space allotted by the airline as suitable for tourist-class passengers. At thirty, Michael Broad, a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles, had retained the muscular leanness of his college t...rack-team years. His brown hair was already showing liberal streaks of gray . . . a hereditary manifestation which secretly delighted him. His low-key personality didn’t fool the discerning for too long. His gray eyes had an almost constant expression of quizzical irony. Defense witnesses being cross-examined had come to fear the steely, penetrating quality of those eyes. They would not have believed the expression of tenderness he invariably showed when he looked at the girl sitting next to him.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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