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Chapter 52
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  TWILLY PHONED YUKI at the office, asked her to have dinner with him at Aubergine, a hot new restaurant on McAllister. “I’ve got so much work to do,” she moaned. Then she relented. “An early dinner, okay? That would be great.”

  At six the restaurant was filling up with the loud pretheater crowd, but she and Twilly had a small table far from the bar, where it was quiet enough to talk. Twilly’s knees bumped against hers from time to time and Yuki didn’t mind.

  “Davis is like an IED,” Yuki said, moving tiny bay scallops on her plate with her fork. “She blows up in your face at every checkpoint.”

  “Her act is getting old. Don’t worry,” Twilly told her. “She’s probably up every night worrying about you.”

  Yuki smiled at her dinner companion, said, “Hey. That’s enough about me.” And she asked him to tell her about his first true-crime book.

  “Must I? It sold about two hundred copies.”

  “It did not.”

  “It did, and I know because I bought all of them myself.”

  Yuki threw back her head and laughed, loosening up finally, feeling pleased that she had Twilly’s attention all to herself.

  “I wrote it under a pseudonym,” Twilly said. “That way if you were to Google me, that bomb won’t come up on the list.”

  “Well, now I know,” said Yuki. “So, what was the book about?”

  Twilly sighed dramatically, but Yuki could see he was just revving1 his motor before rolling out a story he loved to tell.

  “It’s about this country-western singer-songwriter in Nashville,” Twilly said. “Joey Flynn. Ever hear of her?”

  “Nope.”

  “Okay, well, about ten years ago, Joey Flynn had cut a couple of records and was making her way up the charts. ‘Hot Damn.’ You know that song? Or ‘Blue Northern’? No? Well, it doesn’t matter.

  “Joey was married to a carpenter, Luke Flynn, her high school sweetheart, and they’d had four kids before they were twenty-five. One day a fan brought Joey a hundred roses at this saloon where she was singing, and her heart went zing.”

  “A hundred roses . . . ,” Yuki said, imagining it.

  Twilly grinned, said, “Joey messed around with this guy for three weeks before Luke found out and confronted her.”

  “Confronted her how?”

  “Rapped on the door at the Motel 6.”

  “Ouch,” said Yuki.

  “So that was the end of Joey’s affair, and Luke never forgave her. Over time, Joey caught on to the fact that Luke was planning to kill her.”

  “Really? How?”

  “How did she find out? Or how did he plan to kill her?”

  Yuki laughed again, said, “Both, and I think I’m going to have that chocolate mousse cake now.”

  “You deserve cake for the way you handled the governor today,” Twilly said, touching2 the sleeve of Yuki’s blue silk blouse, keeping his hand there for a long moment before he signaled the waiter. After ordering dessert, Twilly went on with his story.

  “Five years after her fling with that fan, Joey opens the cache in Luke’s computer and sees that he’s been looking up how to poison someone.”

  “Oh, my God . . .”

  “Joey writes to her best friend saying that if anything should happen to her, the police should question her husband. Ten days later,” Twilly went on, “Joey was dead. Potassium cyanide shows up on the tox screen, and Joey’s best friend turns the letter over to the cops, and Luke Flynn is arrested and charged with murder.”

  “This story reminds me of Nicole Simpson putting those Polaroids of her bruises3 in a lockbox for her sister in case O.J. hurt her.”

  “Exactly! So I write a book proposal, get a big advance on a six-figure contract, and I start spending time with Luke Flynn, who’s cooling his jets in jail while he awaits trial. And let me tell you, there’s no food like this near the prison in Nashville.”

  “Have the rest,” Yuki said, pushing two-thirds of her cake across the table.

  “You sure you’re done? Okay, then,” Twilly said, accepting the cake.

  Yuki said, “So what happened?”

  The waiter dropped the check on the table and Twilly placed his platinum4 card on it, saying, “I’ll give you a lift to your car. Tell you on the way.”

  “Why don’t you follow me home in your car,” Yuki said. “The least I can do is make you coffee.”

  Twilly smiled.


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1 revving bfb383654012624060e6af7a2c5dfba0     
v.(使)加速( rev的现在分词 );(数量、活动等)激增;(使发动机)快速旋转;(使)活跃起来
参考例句:
  • The team are revving up for next week's game. 这个队伍对下周的比赛跃跃欲试。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Since the introduction of new techniques, the production has been revving up. 自从新技术的引进,产量一直都在增加。 来自互联网
2 touching sg6zQ9     
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
参考例句:
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
3 bruises bruises     
n.瘀伤,伤痕,擦伤( bruise的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • He was covered with bruises after falling off his bicycle. 他从自行车上摔了下来,摔得浑身伤痕。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The pear had bruises of dark spots. 这个梨子有碰伤的黑斑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 platinum CuOyC     
n.白金
参考例句:
  • I'll give her a platinum ring.我打算送给她一枚白金戒指。
  • Platinum exceeds gold in value.白金的价值高于黄金。


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