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WHEN MELATI FINALLY left the apartment, after having assured and reassured the brothers that Jas’ mindbase was fine, there were two things she needed to do: one, find out what was in Jas’ memories and two, put some real pressure on Ari to reveal what he knew. A lot of things about Ari’s behaviour were starting to fall into place, including why he had looked so harassed lately. But if Ari had hidden this man for the past few days, he’d happily hide him for a few more hours, so Melati did something that she had never done before: she went back to work on her off-shift.
It was now well into the B shift and with a bit of luck, the memories would have rendered. Also, because Louise was looking after the boys, she would have the time to view them.
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