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to it today.”
    Clara rubbed her head against his chest. He
sat for a moment lapping up the love.
    “ Shall we?”
    Seth set the puppy on his pillow. He lifted
the covers and Clara zoomed under. He got in the bed next to her.
She moved over until she was right next to him. Seth sighed.
    He had no idea where this puppy came from,
but he couldn’t imagine anything better. Clara took a deep breath
and sighed against him. He fell asleep with a smile on his
face.
    “ Seth?” Maresol looked in
the door. “I thought I heard you…”
    Seeing that he was asleep, she pulled the
door closed.
    ~~~~~~~~
    Sunday morning – 9:45 A.M.
     
    “ Are we going to be here
long?” Sissy asked Sandy.
    She was sitting next to Sandy at a small
table. Rachel was sleeping in a sling on Sandy’s lap. Sweating and
anxious, Charlie sat in the chair at the end of the table closest
to the door. The Arizona FBI had asked Sissy, Charlie and Sandy to
come to their offices this morning. Aden had refused to let them go
without him. He sat on the other end of the table across from
Charlie.
    “ I don’t think so,” Aden
said. “I think they want to update us on what’s going
on.”
    “ What’s going on?” Charlie
asked.
    “ Son, you look like a
criminal,” Aden threw a handkerchief at him. “You don’t want to
look like that when they get here or they’ll think you’re up to
something.”
    “ How do you do it?”
Charlie asked.
    “ I pretend I’m Jake,” Aden
said.
    Charlie nodded. Wiping his face, he tried to
think about what Jake would do in this room. Nodding to himself, he
sat straighter in the chair. Aden nodded to his hands where he
clutched the handkerchief tight. He put them under the table.
    “ Sorry to keep you
waiting,“ a young woman came into the room. She had long dark hair.
Her face bore the remnants of a First People’s Native American
ancestry. “I’m Senior Agent Angela Montiz.”
    The woman looked at Charlie and Sissy. She
smiled.
    “ You can call me Agent
Angie,” she smiled. Her white teeth gleamed against her tan skin.
“I’m Senior Agent in this office. We’re waiting for…”
    “ Sorry,” a young man came
in the office. “I didn’t know you were…”
    Her mouth spread into a smile but her nod
reflected her irritation. With the movement of her head, Sandy saw
a woman who was not only smart, but older than she originally
thought. Sandy smiled. She could trust this Agent Angie. When Sandy
smiled, Sissy and Charlie seemed to relax a little.
    “ You have to forgive,
Agent Yi,” Agent Angie said. “He flew all the way from Hong Kong to
speak with you. He’s terribly jet lagged. Would you like to
introduce yourself, Agent Yi?”
    “ Sorry,” the young man
said. “I’m also out of practice with US customs. I’m Special Agent
Antony Yi.”
    When he smiled, his eyes reflected kind
thought and intelligence. He held his hand out for them to shake.
He shook each of their hands ending with Aden. Sandy felt the
strong desire to cut this young man’s shaggy hair away from his
face. Sandy knew that meant that she instinctively liked him.
    “ I’m usually in these
rooms to interrogate subjects,” Special Agent Yi said.
    “ These are children,”
Agent Angie said. “What can they call you?”
    “ Oh, right,” Special Agent
Yi blushed. “You can call me Agent Tony or hey you, really. Here’s
my card.”
    He passed a card to each of them.
    “ This is my case,” he
said. “It’s been my case for a long time, long before everything
happened in Denver. I usually work with Detective O’Malley in
Denver. That’s why we haven’t met. Detective O’Malley wouldn’t
allow contact between the FBI and the vic…”
    Agent Angie cleared her throat. He flushed
bright red.
    “ It’s a real pleasure to
meet you, Mrs. Norsen,” he said. “It’s rare to meet a woman who is
as strong as you have been. You are a real hero to me and my team
in China. We understand through Detective O’Malley that you want