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Mickey took a step away from him. She’d been so close that his breathing had his chest brushing against her back.

“It keeps things in perspective.”

“Something like the ‘you’re just a grain of sand on the beach of humanity’ theory?”

“No,” she replied. “There are constants and there are subtle shifts that are always evolving. The universe expands, time slows or increases, but it doesn’t matter. The rotation about the sun, the orbit of the moon—those don’t change. It’s a great fusion of dynamic and static forces all working together in concert.”

He had no idea what she was talking about, but he was willing to listen to her voice forever. Their discussion didn’t involve drugs or penny-ante larceny, or even who was winning at the races. Her words were the closest thing to a normal conversation he’d had in two years of undercover work, and he realized how much he missed it. “A philosopher as well as an astronomer,” he murmured.

“That’s not philosophy—that’s physics.”

“Who are you?” he asked, no longer able to continue with the game they were playing.

“Are you really sure you want to know?” She raised her brows as she asked.

And he was a goner.