Theo had his weapon half drawn before Naomi reached the studio steps."Hands where I can see them," he said through the glass, and she stopped, and slowly lifted both palms to the level of her shoulders. She did not look frightened. She looked like a woman who had spent a night she would never get back, and had decided, somewhere around dawn, to stop pretending otherwise.Adrian unlocked the door himself. He didn't open it wide."Whatever you came to say," he said, "you say it with Theo patting you down.""Good," Naomi said. "I'd have asked him to."Theo searched her coat, her bag, her boots. He took her phone, her car keys, and a small silver flash drive from the inside pocket of her blazer. When he was done he nodded once, and she walked into the studio with a soldier's straight back and stood in the middle of the drafting room, facing the four of them."Delacroix looked at me in that garage," she said. "I saw you notice. I wanted to tell you last night, and I couldn't make my mouth
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