“I’m not trying to manage you, Travis.”“Give us a minute, guys,” I asked the other occupants of the room. They got up and headed outside wit...hout a word. I waited for the balcony door to close before I turned back to Liz. “What do you call it, then?”“I don’t know what to call it,” Liz said.“You get pissed off when people do this to you,” I said.“I know and I’d be pissed off if you’d done it to me today,” Liz said.“Things like this are the reason I haven’t pressed my attorney to send the contract. Tanya was gone, most likely dead. No chance that she would be here. Not after eight years. Tanya had been William’s fiancé, a glowing chestnut girl with a soft laugh and a will of steel. She and William had met some ten years ago, both lost on a back road in the Michigan wilderness and ending up at the same hotel. They had laughed together, talked together, had fun in the winter wonderland of the backwoods and the rustic hotel for the three days it took until their vehicles were retrieved from. Once selected both were placed side by side just below the first drawn. Forming a simple pyramid before being turned crisply over left to right."Here we have the current concerns which caused the division." She smoothly announced. To her left, now face up, a depiction of two nude bodies' male and female passionately intertwined."The lovers?" A sculpted eyebrow was raised. Barely a glance was spared now at the third card. Though she instantly noted it was the 'hanged man'."WHICH LOVERS?" Asked a. ’ ‘Women.’ Derek said grimly. ‘He’s managed to kidnap them from all over England, different times, different places so not to be suspect. He ships them out in smaller numbers, sometimes passing them off as the crewmen’s wives. It’s how he gets past the law.’ ‘He’s fairly green.’ Derek meant in criminal history, for he would have heard of Bergs and known more about him otherwise. ‘Less than a year, but we’ve known almost from the start.’ Derek shook his head. ‘I just had a feeling. It means.
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