’ ‘Didn’t we have someone impersonating an officer a few years ago?’ Cindy asked, ‘Had a badge like that?’ She meant the perp we caught in...the Evidence Rooms, who’d committed suicide by cyanide… and was wearing a fake badge with my number on it. ‘Yes, I remember that.’ I said. ‘And that is causing me to wonder if we have someone impersonating a police officer, going around and killing dogs.’ ‘Why would anyone do that?’ Theo Washington asked. ‘That is what you are going to find out, Detective. Then she opened her eyes, and he bitterly regretted admiring the twin cones of her tunic-clad breasts. She was pointing a recoil-pistol directly at him.So, I finally resign myself to spending the rest of my life alone, with no one to spend my royalty checks on. And what happens? At a book signing I was starting to doze off while some or other local dipshit droned on about what an honor it was to have me there. Some honor. Suppressing a yawn, I pulled out my trusty old ballpoint and looked up at. And then there’s clearing the path for your cars on the driveway, especially if they’re not SUVs.”“Jeeze, my back’s aching just thinking about it,” she said. “Why not use magic?”“To make the job easier, sure, but I can’t do anything overt. Mom and Alyssa don’t know. They’re not allowed to know.”“You told Faith,” she said.I knew that would bite me in the butt. “Yes, but even she hasn’t told Alyssa, and they talk about everything.”“No? Really? What everything?”“Well, Faith pretty much told Alyssa. We had flirted a little, but mostly left it at that. She seemed pretty content, so I decided she wouldn't respond and was thus not worth pursuing.Several weeks after my decision, I found myself with a large post build cleanup, and my wife was out of town visiting her family. I called Tami's husband, Tom, for help, but he was working a job of his own. However, he said he could handle it himself and would send Tami over to help me. She arrived about 30 minutes later wearing a cotton blouse and.