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Friendship? Vicki felt her eyebrows rise.


Celluci drove his hands into his hair, yanking them through the curls, a gesture he used when he was
trying very hard to keep his temper. Maybe I'm not willing to toss aside four years of friendship and four
years of sex because of a stupid disagreement!


Just sex? That's it? Vicki took the easy way out, ignoring the more loaded topic of their disagreement. A
shortage of things to fight about had never been one of their problems. Well, it wasn't just sex to me,
Detective!


They were both yelling now.


Did I say it was just sex? He spread his arms wide, his voice booming off the tiled walls of the subway
station. It was great sex, okay? It was terrific sex! It was ... What?


PC West, his fair skin deeply crimson, jumped. You're blocking the body, he stammered.


Growling an inaudible curse, Celluci jerked back against the wall.



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As the gurney rolled by, the contents of the fluorescent orange bag lolling a little from side to side, Vicki
curled her hands into fists and contemplated planting one right on Mike Celluci's classically handsome
nose. Why did she let him affect her like this? He had a definite knack for poking through carefully
constructed shields and stirring up emotions she thought she had under control. Damn him anyway. It
didn't help that, this time, he was right. A corner of her mouth twitched up. At least they were talking
again. . . .


When the gurney had passed, she straightened her fingers, laid her hand on Celluci's arm and said, Next
time, I'll do it by the book.


It was as close to an apology as she was able to make and he knew it.


Why start now. He sighed. Look, about leaving the force; you're not blind, Vicki, you could have
stayed. ...