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IT WAS TOO EARLY for the staff to have arrived, so I used my own key

to get into the club and disarmed security while Celia headed up to the

manager's office. When I got in there, she was walking around the room

with a puzzled look on her face.

"There used to be a bookcase in here. I stuck it in with all the other

books." She looked at me quizzically. "This is all different since I was last

here."

"It was fully remodeled when Alayna was on maternity leave." The

same time the letters started arriving...

Another piece of the picture was attempting to come into focus. "You

left the journal for Alayna to find, but how did you expect her to know that

it was me and you it was talking about? All the references to me just say

him." Celia had thought it best to disguise our identities that way, not use

any personal references to ourselves. Just in case.

"I put a picture of us from the masquerade ball it described inside." She

shrugged, as if to say she knew she was guilty, what else could she