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And I didn't want to do that. Frankly, I'd take whatever I could get. Most true safe houses had a room with a steel door and reinforced concrete walls. Louis, I said.

It was as if scent was like a photograph of a murder scene. I didn't think it was a word he'd chosen lightly. I wanted to say, let me touch you, let me distract you, but I didn't. Not my job.