Her partner ambles over to us. He’d been talking to my neighbors, and as expected, no one heard or saw anything until I screamed. “One question,” he asks, “everyone says ye were screaming for your mum. But ye live alone, aye?” If Detective Christie’s eyes rolled any further back, they’d be lodged in her brain stem. “Here’s your chance to detect, Detective Roy. Do ye see all these women here?” She gestures to my neighbors. Meera set down her soup ladle long enough to put on some shoes and the other women from my building are still standing close. “In a neighborhood like this - no offense, Miss
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