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Rebecca ran her hands through her hair as she sat at her desk the next morning and tried to figure out what to do next about Salma Najjar. She was in the wind and Rebecca knew why.
Last evening, Richie had told her the story of Shay and Salma’s affair, but nothing about Yussef’s murder. Still, Rebecca was quite certain that Salma was the killer, and that the men who loved her had done all they could to protect her. If she ever did establish Salma as Yussef’s murderer, she feared she could arrest not only Salma, but her father and Shay as accomplices.
Rebecca cared about Shay, and the thought that he had a daughter he hadn’t known about added to the sympathy she felt for him. Given his quirky, loner personality, she couldn’t imagine how he was handling such news. She also wondered how
