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“Correct. But we found out Rosario had not in fact been raped.”

“That’s deep.”

“She is a very deep woman. For her, the murder of Rosario, her own son and Angela, were all a single act: the destruction of a woman who was trying to steal her loved one.” I sighed. “And then there were a few other little things. For example, neither Akachukwu nor Ed could have shot Sebastian. Akachukwu was an experienced, battle-hardened mercenary. His grouping would have been tight and accurate. And as you found out this morning, Ed is a member of the Pistol Club. Frank told us from the start, whoever did the shooting was not accustomed to firing a gun. It was only a .38, but it was dancing all over the place. There was no grouping at all.” I glanced at her. She was nodding. “Same thing with Moses and Angela. At point blank range, there was a foot between one shot and another.”

“Yeah, you’re right. I should have thought of that.”

“The other thing, which you realized in Angela’s garden—I saw you slap your forehead—was that Ed’s gun, the Smith and Wesson Bodyguard, is a revolver and it carries only five rounds. That would have meant that in both shootings, Sebastian and Angela, he would have emptied the cylinder, reloaded, and then fired two more shots. That would have been pretty eccentric, even for Ed. So, when you put that together with the poor aim, Ed just didn’t fit the bill, but Sue did.”

We were moving along Morris Park Avenue and she still hadn’t said anything. She gazed out the window at the deepening dusk and the warm glow from the shop fronts and the windows, with the wind whipping her hair across her face.

“So when I was dragging us off to look for Ed, you called her.”

I nodded. “I was pretty sure he was going to go to Rosario’s house. Contrary to you, I think he is a very passionate, romantic man, who just happens to be an asshole as well. I had a hunch he was going to want to end it all where she had died. So I asked her to meet us there. It struck me that bringing them together like that might trigger a confession.”

I turned into Haight Avenue and after a short drive came to a stop in front of my house. I climbed out and went around to the passenger side, where Dehan had climbed out, too. She was giving me an odd look that was masking a smile.

“You’re going to force me to eat that damned bison steak whatever happens, aren’t you?”

I didn’t smile. I was serious.

“Dehan, I owe you an apology.”

She frowned. “You do?”

“In Goa, I was an ass, and I am sorry.”

She blinked. She was startled.

I went on, “There is something I should have done, and I have a confession to make.”

“Stone? Are you okay…”

The last word came out muffled because I had taken her in my arms and kissed her. At first it was like kissing a wooden plank. But when I whispered my confession in her ear, she went soft and put her arms around my neck, and we stood there, holding each other, home at last, as the moon rose over the Bronx and smiled.

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Two Bare Arms (Book 2)

Garden of the Damned (Book 3)

Let Us Prey (Book 4)

The Sins of the Father (Book 5)

Strange and Sinister Path (Book 6)

The Heart to Kill (Book 7)

Unnatural Murder (Book 8)

Fire from Heaven (Book 9)

To Kill Upon A Kiss (Book 10)

Murder Most Scottish (Book 11)

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Trick or Treat (Book 14)

Blood Into Win (Book 15)

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Kill: One (Book 7)

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