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A long pause followed Kira’s words.
“I cleaned out Clarissa’s journal.” The Procurer’s voice was low.
“Clarissa pressed pretty hard when she was writing, It was easy enough to get an impression from one of the other pages. You would have been better off to have taken the whole thing. But if her precious journal had gone missing, it would have risked revealing her death wasn’t a suicide.”
“I’d wondered why you had gone back to visit Clarissa’s parents.” He gave a rueful shake of his head. “And Clarissa was a mistake. I should have never taken her. But then I saw her, and she looked so much like Nadine…”
He sighed. “You’re the only one who’s ever been a match for me. The police never suspected anything, did they?”
“The police didn’t know about Nadine.” Kira took a step forward. “Why
