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"Gracias and ad ids
She caught hold of his arm, pulling him back toward her. "Oh, and, Gomez, I've
been thinking about that strange and awful Tek-induced nightmare I had, the
one, as I believe I mentioned, where you expressed a deep passion for me," she
said. "While you're winging your way homeward, you might want to think about
that notion and, as repellant as it is to me, determine if perhaps there's a
grain of truth in it. It would explain some of the odd aspects of our
long-running relationship." She kissed him on the cheek and let him free.
I'll give it my unswerving attention," he promised,
taking off at a trot up the ramp. AFTERlll)I)N $17 over Greater Los
Angeles was a sooty golden color. Jake, alone in his sky car was flying
inland.
On the dash phone screen Bascom was saying, "Concentrate on the bonus.
It'll be substantial for both you lads."
"The Devlin angle is a loose end."
"For now," conceded the head of the Cosmos agency. "I've already assured you
that nobody is going to bother your son or Molly Fine over this."
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"But is this guy alive?"
Bascom said, "Thus far I haven't been able to find out. However, Jake, it
occurs to me that I may be able to persuade certain interested parties in our
nation's capti al to finance an investigation." He held up his hand. "That
will be another case. This one is officially over." "Okay."
"Oh, and I'm curious about an item that just came in from Madrid. Why am I
still being billed by Soberano's agency in Madrid?"
Jake looked away from the phone screen "It's all part of the case."
"Says here Gomez authorized these further investigations," said Bascom.
"Can I deduct these charges from his bonus?"
"It would not," advised Jake, "be a good idea, chief." "All right, benovelent
patriarch that I am, I'll forget about the matter. Unless it goes on beyond
the end of the week." Bascom ended the call.
Jake tapped out a landing pattern and the sky car began drifting down toward a
simulated nature preserve in the Pasadena Sector.
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Bev Kendricks was waiting at the edge of the landing lot. Holographic redwood
trees rose up behind her, with mossy trails winding through
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them. "Most of what I said to you when you got into that fight with
Jabb Marx [ didn't really mean," she began as he came toward her.
He put his arms around her for a moment, then stepped back. "But some of it
you did believe."
"You've been hanging on to your anger over Beth's death a long time,"
she said.
He said, "I'm not ready to give it up yet."
She hesitated a few seconds, then took his hand. They walked into the deep
shadows of the forest.
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