Cade
stepped around Mandi to clear the doorway.
Shifting his backpack slightly, he said, "Yeah, I was afraid you might react
like that. The dealer's room can wait. Let's go back to my room for some show
and tell."
The elevator doors opened as Mandi whisperingly blurted, "What?!"
Nobody got off the elevator and the people aboard it looked questioningly at
Mandi and Cade until the doors closed again.
Once they were alone, Mandi stepped very close to Cade and was about to say
something scathing when Cade said, "Okay, maybe that was a poor choice of words,
but I guarantee you'll be glad I showed you the pictures."
Hovering between anger and startlement, Mandi peered at Cade sharply as she
asked, "What pictures?!"
Shifting his backpack around front, Cade unzipped it and fished out the
three printouts, which he handed to her.
"The pictures these blowups were made from," he said. "A kid with a digital
camera took them. He sold them to WNN about an hour ago."
After staring at the pictures for all of two seconds, Mandi grabbed her cell
phone out of her purse and dialed.
Cade heard the same woman he'd talked to perhaps six times in the last few
days say, "Zero-eight-two-six.
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