Southern Belle
“The high of pulling off a successful job, of knowing he had escaped jail, kept him up at first. But then his mind tumbled over black and white images of the woman in the photo. What had happened to her to cause those beautiful eyes to look so haunted? Why did Dr. Ernest include the picture in the coded file? And what about her spooked Drummond?By the time Sandra woke, Max had already eaten a toasted bagel and granola cereal. She glanced at the cold pot of coffee and grunted."Sorry," he said, pi...cking a raisin from his teeth. "The last thing I needed was caffeine. I'm still wide awake."She shuffled over to the counter and poured the dregs into a mug. "You'll crash this afternoon." Placing the mug into the microwave, she added, "Are you excited about the case or are you thinking about that picture?""Excited is not the right word.""Confused, then?""How about terrified?"The microwave beeped and Sandra sat with her head over the steaming mug of day-old coffee. "That seems a bit much. We've handled stranger cases than this.""Never one that involved Drummond lying like this or one in which he sees a photo and runs off.""Maybe we should confront him.MoreLess
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