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anemia.”
    Drew burst into the lab in his usual matter.
    “I don’t think I can do this,” Emma said, her voice faint.
    Elle patted her hand. “Have Del take you out and eat a high iron meal. Eggs, red meat, or scallops. Get some spinach.”
    She nodded. “I guess I better let you go so you can call Tripler. Thanks, Elle.” She smiled at Drew, then left them alone, rushing out.
    “What’s wrong with her?” Drew asked, as Elle looked through her contacts at Tripler.
    “Bridal nerves. They have less than two weeks left.”
    “I know,” Drew said, wiggling his eyebrows. “I’m going to make my move.”
    She smiled. “You asked Cat to attend the wedding with you?”
    “Well, we are driving there together. Then, I’ll sweep her off her feet.”
    Elle smiled. “I hope you do.”
    She brought up a contact’s name, and started dialing the number. When Dr. Myers answered on the first ring, she smiled and started talking fast.
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    G raeme’s mobile rang before they could even get to the report. He saw Carino’s number and winced.
    “Carino,” he said to Del.
    “Read him in, and if he gives you crap, hand him off to me.”
    Graeme nodded and clicked on his mobile as he walked into his office for a little privacy.
    “Give me a reason not to kick your Scottish ass all the way back to the UK, McGregor,” Rome growled over the phone.
    “Hey, I was under orders. And to save a little bit of an issue, Del had gotten approval to read you in before the info leaked. I was going to talk to you about it tomorrow.”
    “Still pissed.”
    “Well, get over it.”
    There was a long pause, then a sigh. “Okay, tell me what you have.”
    He went over what little they had gathered, then waited for Carino to respond.
    “Son of a bitch. We could have asked him about that and might have found the weapon.”
    “First of all, he lawyered up. Second of all, before we could sort through everything, he’d passed out.”
    Carino sighed again, the long day and the frustration of a case that had just gone sideways easy to hear over the phone.
    “We’re going over the ME’s report, but why don’t I come over tomorrow with the report from this case, along with the cold case, then we can put it all together and maybe come up with something?”
    “I’ll see what I can dig up. Nine sound good?”
    “Make it ten. I’m still at TFH headquarters, and I’m not sure how long before I can head back home.”
    “Good. And, just so you know, I say you owe me one.”
    Then he hung up. McGregor couldn’t help but chuckle. Carino was definitely one of a kind. He walked back out into the conference room.
    “Everything okay?” Del asked.
    McGregor nodded. “Aye. He’s coming over around ten tomorrow to go over the two cases with us.”
    “Good. Carino has a good eye, so he’ll help.”
    “More than likely, he’ll be happy to dump this in our laps.”
    Del nodded. “From what this says, she was found under some brush, her face covered,” Del said, as he read over the ME report. “Odd that he made so many notes about things like that in this.”
    “Both Elle and I think that the murderer might have known her, or at least it wasn’t premeditated. Definitely shows remorse.”
    “And the ME?”
    “He’s practically like an uncle to Elle. She thinks he wondered about a cover up, so the extensive notes might have something to do with that. And, she noted that he started looking at it again around the time of the Goddess Killer.”
    Del nodded as his mouth tightened. Graeme could understand his boss’s reaction. Seeing the woman he loved fall over a balcony was enough to make Del hate even the mention of the case.
    “It’s such a shame the girl was ignored, but hell, you see it still today,” Marcus said. “And this definitely would fall through the cracks, even right now.”
    “Not sure about that,” Cat said. “Now that we have so many traffic cams, etc., there would have been more ways to sort through the evidence. And,