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paying attention he would have heard her explain it to Liam half a dozen times already. Still, he had been agitated. Besides, it was good to go over it again, make sure there wasn’t a shred of information she had forgotten to share earlier.
    “Well, I finally decided to come look for you instead of waiting at your house any longer,” she started.
    A grimace crossed his face for a moment and then was gone. The sudden urge to tell him this was all his fault was great, but she managed not to.
    “I figured I’d see if you were at the synagogue. By the time I made it over here with all the traffic from the rally letting out I decided to use the restroom and wash my face so it wasn’t immediately obvious that I had been crying.”
    She paused and was rewarded when he flinched slightly.
    “So, I headed to the women’s room that’s there close to the gate. I opened the door and I saw the dead woman with Henry crouched over her. I backed out, shouting for help. I heard someone running toward me and, to be honest, I really thought it was you.”
    A new expression passed over his face very briefly and was gone. She wasn’t sure what it was he was feeling, but the look she had just seen was chilling.
    “It wasn’t, though. It was Christopher. He asked me what was wrong. I told him to call 911 because a woman was dead in the bathroom and there was a man in there with her. He did. Then he opened the door, recognized Henry and called to him. Henry didn’t move though. We kept the door open, watching him to make sure he didn’t try to destroy evidence or anything.”
    “That was incredibly foolish,” Jeremiah said. “What if he’d tried to attack you?”
    “I realized that if he was going to try, he would have done it when he first saw me. The guy was in shock, really out of it. And with Christopher there I felt safe.”
    Again that expression flashed across Jeremiah’s face. Was it anger? That didn’t feel quite right. It couldn’t be jealousy, could it? That just seemed ridiculous.
    “Anyway, a patrol car arrived first and an officer had to practically carry Henry out of there. Then Liam arrived and you were there for the rest.”
    He nodded.
    “I don’t think Henry did it.”
    “All evidence to the contrary,” Jeremiah said.
    “I know how it looks. I mean, goodness, I’m the one who found him that way. He was in shock, though.”
    “Could be the reality of what he’d done finally hit him.”
    “I don’t think so. He doesn’t seem like a killer to me.”
    Jeremiah raised an eyebrow. “Not everyone who is seems like it.”
    She stared at him for a long minute and she saw him finally begin to squirm. A thousand retorts rushed through her mind. In the end, though, he was right. She couldn’t always spot a killer. Life the last couple years would have been so much easier if she could.
    “I just don’t see it,” she finally said.
    “He is a politician. Lying comes naturally to them.”
    “Yeah, but I would have thought that by that same logic he would have been a lot smarter if he did want to kill her. I mean, he could have hired someone or at least planned it where he wouldn’t be found with the body.”
    “Maybe it was an accident or a heat of the moment thing.”
    Cindy crossed her arms over her chest. “The woman looked like she had been stabbed. I’m pretty sure the police didn’t find any weapons in that bathroom.”
    Cindy’s phone rang and she reached into her purse to grab it.
    “Hello?”
    “Cindy, Liam.”
    “Oh, hi, Liam,” she said so Jeremiah would know who she was talking to.
    “Where are you?”
    “Jeremiah and I retreated to one of the Sunday school rooms when the press showed up.”
    “Sensible. We’re working on clearing them out of here now.”
    “Do you have more questions for me?” she asked.
    “Not at the moment, but then again, I know how to get hold of you.”
    “Are you arresting Henry?” she asked.
    There was a pause. Finally Liam said, “We’re taking him