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Grey felt more nervous than he could remember being as he took the last few steps and pushed open the door to Aladdin’s Cave. He had performed on stage more than a dozen times in his life, in front of fair-sized audiences, and even auditioned for a part in a well-known children’s show after finishing school. All of that was nothing compared to what he was about to do, though.
He couldn’t have said why his current role made him so nervous, unless it was the possibility – slim to the point of not being worth considering, according to Burke, not that it made him feel any better – that failing to act convincingly might well result in more than just boos or negative reviews.
Grey had seen for himself in her file that Frances Bilinski’s had never been involved in a violent crime; the troub
