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Of course, she didn't know itwas my sister's picture since I hadn't told her why we'd come to thePress Association office in the first place. She wondered why now, but the answer lay before her in the hollownessshe felt and the budding of a fear that she'd long ago buried. That's not how it is. His voice fractured but Ted Wileywasn't a retired Army man for nothing.

for wherever it was that sheintended to be trained. But to speak of his feelings seemed a betrayal in every direction. Raphael pushes past her to get to me. He'd said he'd have to drive down from Hampstead to see her sohe couldn't swear what time he'd get there but he would come