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“WHY DIDN’T YOU WAKE me up?”
“Sorry, had to get to work and wanted to let you sleep,” Nick said into his phone as he got out of his car in the station parking lot.
“Well, you’re not forgiven, you’ll have to make it up to me.” He could hear her smiling over the phone.
“Gladly.”
“Listen, I decided to do some more detective work of my own,” Penny said.
“You didn’t riffle through your other co-workers’ desks, did you?”
“Maybe.”
“What’d you find?”
“All of those database entries had been updated after the final transaction had taken place.”
“Isn’t that normal, having to update buyer info, final price, escrow, stuff like that?”
“I mean after that stuff.”
“Margie went in and changed the incident status after the transaction took place?”
“Because if the current resident wi
