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  All this was in Leo’s mind as he and Timmy walked home from Saint David’s on Eighty-ninth Street off Fifth Avenue to the apartment, eight blocks away on Lexington Avenue and Ninety-fourth Street. After Greg’s death Laurie had moved immediately, unable to bear the sight of the playground where Greg had been shot.

  A passing police cruiser slowed as it drove past them. The officer in the passenger seat saluted Leo.

  “I like it when they do that to you, Grandpa,” Timmy announced. “It makes me feel safe,” he added matter-of-factly.

  Be careful, Leo warned himself. I’ve always told Timmy that if I wasn’t around and he or his friends had a problem they should run to a police officer and ask for help. Unconsciously, he tightened his grip on Timmy’s hand.

  “Well, you haven’t had any problems that I couldn’t solve for you.” Then he added carefully, “At least as far as I know.”

  They were walking north on Lexington Avenue. The wind had shifted and felt raw against their faces. Leo stopped and firmly pulled Timmy’s woolen cap down over his forehead and ears.

  “One of the guys in the eighth grade was walking to school this morning and some guy on a bike tried to grab his cell phone out of his hand. A policeman saw it and pulled the guy over,” Timmy said.

  It hadn’t been an incident involving someone with blue eyes. Leo was ashamed to admit to himself how relieved that made him. Uuhl Greg’s killer was apprehended, he needed to know that Timmy and Laurie were safe.

  Someday justice will be served, he vowed to himself.

  This morning, as she hurried out to work seconds after he arrived, Laurie had said that she was going to hear the verdict on the reality show she was proposing. Leo’s mind moved restlessly to that concern. He knew he would have to wait for the news until tonight. Over their second cup of coffee, when Timmy had finished dinner and was curled up in the big chair with a book, she would discuss it with him. Then he would leave for his own apartment a block away. At the end of the day, he wanted Laurie and Timmy to have their own space, and he was satisfied that no one would get past the doorman in their building without a phone call to the resident they claimed to be visiting.

  If she got the go-ahead to do that series, it’s going to be bad news, Leo thought.

  A man with a hooded sweatshirt, dark sunglasses, and a canvas bag on his shoulder, seeming to come out of nowhere, darted past him on roller skates, almost knocking over Timmy, then a very pregnant young woman who was about ten feet ahead of them.

  “Get off the sidewalk,” Leo shouted as the skater turned the corner and disappeared.

  Behind the dark sunglasses, bright blue eyes glittered and the skater laughed aloud.

  Such encounters fed his need for the sense of power he felt when he literally touched Timmy and knew that on any given day he could carry out his threat.

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  No Place Like Home

  Nighttime Is My Time

  The Second Time Around

  Kitchen Privileges

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  On the Street Where You Live

  Before I Say Good-bye

  We’ll Meet Again

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  You Belong to Me

  Pretend You Don’t See Her

  My Gal Sunday

  Moonlight Becomes You

  Silent Night

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  The Lottery Winner

  Remember Me

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  Loves Music, Loves to Dance

  The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories

  While My Pretty One Sleeps

  Weep No More, My Lady

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  A Cry in the Night

  The Cradle Will Fall

  A Stranger Is Watching

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