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Оглавление“I won’t hang around while you look through the garage. Unless you want me to, Ms. Marshall?”
She would have laughed, if her mood had been better. “You’d be here for the next two weeks.”
“Call if you need me,” the man said, then shook hands with Tony Navarro and strode to his car, undoubtedly relieved to have escaped.
Tony didn’t move. He wasn’t watching the attorney’s departure; he was looking at her.
“Do you need the key for the side door?” she asked. “Let me get my purse and I’ll give you mine.”
“No.” A hand on her arm stopped her. “Actually, yes, thank you, but there’s something else I’m hoping you’ll do for me.”
“That I’ll do for you?”
He rubbed his jaw. “Is there any chance you could take more time off work? I could use some help going through the stuff in the garage, and on the lawn.” When she gaped, he grimaced. “The truth is, you’d recognize something that doesn’t belong, or should be there and isn’t.”
She shook her head in disbelief. “I’m supposed to use up my vacation days to help you go after my father?”
He cocked an eyebrow. “You’ll have a chance to point out evidence leading to someone else.”
And he was right—this offer would make her part of the investigation. What could she do but accept?
