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Оглавление“Move under that streetlight where I can see you.” She gave the shovel a shake. “And put your hands in the air.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
Cool as a cucumber, the stranger did as he was told. Grace estimated that he was between thirty-five and forty, with dark hair, eyes that watched her with undisguised amusement, and a little lopsided smile that, at any other time, would have made her want to smile back. Not this time.
“Maybe you should put your weapon down before it misfires – ”
“And maybe you should stop cracking jokes and take this situation a little more seriously.”
“Sorry.”
“Are you aware that breaking and entering is a crime?” Resting the shovel on her shoulders and holding it with one hand, she used the other to take her mobile phone out of her bag.
“I wasn’t breaking and entering.”
“You did last night. I have the bump to prove it.”
“I’m sorry about the bump. And the concussion, but the man who inflicted those injuries wasn’t me.”
Her finger above the nine key, she stopped. “How do you know about the concussion?”
“My father told me.” When she frowned, he added, “I’m Matt Baxter.”
The phone almost dropped out of her hand. Matt Baxter. The FBI agent.
