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Kiki’s spa, the “House of Beauty,” was on Union Street near Fillmore, a convenient location for wealthy customers from Pacific Heights or the Marina district to reach. Rebecca knew she could have refused to let Richie come along with her, but the truth was, this wasn’t her case, and she had no more “right” to be there than he did.
Besides, she couldn’t help but think that if she went through with her plan to stop seeing him, this was perhaps the last time she’d be with him looking into some possibly dangerous situation going on in this city. She had to admit that as much as she enjoyed being in Homicide, those cases that she worked with Richie were definitely among the most interesting of her career. As she sat in his Porsche, she breathed in the smell of the leather interior, and the
