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Laura didn’t speak as he held the door for her, stayed silent when he climbed in the driver’s seat, and eased her brother’s car through the cluster of emergency vehicles.
He didn’t have words for how much he didn’t want to leave without knowing what had happened to the necklace, but he was nothing if not pragmatic. If it had been found by Henri’s attacker, it was already gone. If it hadn’t been found, it wasn’t going to be found until Henri told them where it was. His last sight, before he turned a corner and left Henri’s street behind, was of a stretcher being loaded into the ambulance.
Looked like, for now, that Henri was alive. He opened his mouth to ask her to let someone know to post a guard—and closed it. Zach might not know Archie’s story, but he’d been a cop and could add. As
