CHAPTER TWENTY-TWOOkay, I thought. Don’t be ridiculous. Conroy might have a female visitor. He’s entitled to a social life. Assuming that’s who the visitor was. I hate assumptions. I noted the car was a silver late-model compact with Delaware tags. So, now what? Bust in on Conroy at nearly 3:00 in the morning, probably in flagrante delicto? The guy already loved me, so that would go over really well. I pulled up to the curb across the street and watched the house. In a window, a shadow flickered past the blind. Then another. “Hmm.” I squirmed and tapped a staccato beat on the wheel. Minutes passed. Ten. Fifteen. Nothing. As my watch crept up on the twenty-minute mark, I prepared to exit the car, figuring I’d sneak up to a window and take a peek inside. That’s when I saw it coming up

