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Harvey stared at the plate she’d cut up until Vivian wondered what she’d done wrong.
“We both had the same dinner.”
He nodded but didn’t look up.
“Not gonna feed you when you’ve got a perfectly good hand.”
He shook his head, that wasn’t it.
She glanced sideways, but Hammond and Sylvester were chatting up a couple of local women who’d sat at the next table over. Vivian might not have much experience at being a woman in addition to being female in a very male world, but even she could see that they were selling it hard: over-bright smiles, teasing giggles, shoulders up and back to display their figures to best advantage. Couldn’t the guys see that? Maybe that’s what guys wanted. Fine, let them fall down that hole and figure their own way back out. Her problem was the rescue swimmer
