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“Hah.I said.Tal asked my sheriff, who asked me.”
“And…?”
“And I hope it will advance my career.”
“Because…?”
“Because I want to investigate.The sheriff won’t give me the chance.Moving somewhere else would mean starting over, which I’ve been thinking I’ll need to do.But with this, it might open the door to investigating.”
“In Cabot County or elsewhere?”
“Either way.Nothing ties me to Cabot County.”
“No relationship there?”
“No.What about you?”
One side of his mouth lifted.“Since you already know I’m not in a relationship, you must mean why I agreed to this gig.”He echoed her, “I said.Cully and Ellyn asked me.”
“And…?”
“And I wanted to do something to help the community, be part of it.”
“Because…?”
“Because Cully and Grif gave me the being-a-hermit-works-only-for-crabs lecture.And if you tell Pauline that, I’ll sue you for extreme personal injury.”
“Could you?”
“I could sure as heck try.”
She breathed out a short chuckle.“Don’t try.Your secret’s safe with me.”
“As yours are with me.”
She believed it.
*
Muttering again about his buying “unnecessary” clothes, K.D.refused his help taking the purchases upstairs to her room.She said she’d be down for their next study session.
Eric went in search of Pauline, finding her in his kitchen, apparently having tossed something in the garbage.
“What are you doing?”he asked mildly.
“Throwing out bananas.”
He came around the island.“Hey, I just bought those.Why would you throw them out?”
“This,” she said — not mildly, “is precisely the sort of thing that could trip you up and blow the whole thing.”
“Bananas?”
“K.D.hates them.Hates everything about them.Can’t stand to have them around.”
“What makes you think that?”
“I know it, because she told the crew at Far Hills, and they told me.”
