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desk for you.”
    “What are you going to do? Smuggle me in for an interview?”
    “Probably,” the young man answered seriously. “I haven’t
worked it out yet.”
    “What if you can’t get me in?”
    “You’re still in Vancouver,” he offered. “It’s a pretty
city.”
    “Send me the ticket for Saturday the thirteenth, then,”
Angel said, playing along. Nothing would come of it anyway. She doubted a
ticket would arrive. “May as well make a holiday of it.”
    “Sure,” the young man agreed. “Bring the other one too.”
    “What?” Angel asked as the phone clicked. She was only too
aware who the other one had to be, but how could Danny know?
    And now all she had to do was go to Auburn for Thanksgiving,
make peace with her twin and persuade her to go to Vancouver for an impromptu
December vacation. Angel knew she could fool the john once she got into bed
with him. Sweet and innocent was one of her better gigs. But the lawyer? She
might need her sister for the interview.
    Sure.
    There weren’t two hopes in hell that the ticket would
arrive, that the interview was real, that some rich loony would give her the
money to quit turning tricks. But what the heck. She wasn’t working anyway and
like the man said, Vancouver was a pretty city.
     

Chapter
5
    Aggie arrived in Atlanta two hours ahead of her sister. She
went through the paperwork to pick up the rental car Angela had reserved. Then
she went to Waterston’s, her favorite airport bookstore, and bought a recent
paperback bestseller. She found an empty row near her sister’s arrival gate and
settled in to wait. Aggie hadn’t seen or heard from Angela in almost a year.
Anticipation and the CNN broadcast made it hard to concentrate on her book and
soon she tossed the machinations of the San Diego district attorney into her
bag.
    Pacing the hallway beside the gate, Aggie chewed one
fingernail absently. She checked her watch and the arrivals board every few
minutes, certain that something would go wrong. Eventually the first passengers
began to trickle out the corridor from the plane. Aggie had a clear view over
the heads of most of the waiting greeters and she saw Angela as soon as she came
through the door. Every hair in place. Impeccably tailored suit. Aggie’s
shoulders sagged as she looked at her still perfect twin. Her sister’s head was
turned back in conversation with the proverbial tall, dark, handsome man. Trust
Angela to pick up the one good prospect on the plane.
    “Bye, Angel.” The man handed her sister a carry-on bag. His
voice oozed seduction. He leaned forward and kissed her on the cheek, then
watched longingly as she walked away.
    “Angel?” Aggie asked as her sister approached.
    “I go by that in New York,” Angel explained.
    “Do you want me to call you Angel now?”
    “No. Angela’s fine.” She opened her arms. “Inside I’m still
Boo.”
    Aggie burst into tears and pulled her twin into a fierce
hug. Her first emotion spent, she raised her fist and pounded Angela’s
shoulder.
    “You!” Aggie gulped. “Boo, you’re awful. You don’t call for
a year and then you walk off the plane with the most handsome man I’ve seen
since you left. Where do you find them?”
    Angela laughed and Aggie tightened her grip. Her sister
squeezed back then put her hands on Aggie’s shoulders and held her away.
    “Look at you, Boo,” she whispered. “Still the same Aggie.”
    “We’re the Boo-Boo twins,” Aggie said, wiping her eyes.
“Let’s go. I filled out the papers for the car. We just need to give them your
driver’s license number and we can go. Do you have any more luggage?”
    Angela shook her head and the two women started down the
long corridor toward the car rental booth. Angela linked her arm in Aggie’s and
seemed oblivious to the glances that Aggie felt boring into her skin.
    “You need a haircut, Boo!”
    Aggie reach up a hand and tousled her shag. “Do I?”
    “Yes,” Angela insisted.