[Deskisamess]

“I was sent a threatening little note today, saying that he would tell you about all the things I had done if I did not agree to meet with him.”
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She twirled her hair around her finger. “I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face. You did ask for honesty, after all. It seemed to be a matter of basic common sense. When one is threatened by a shadowy criminal figure, one goes to the magistrate that shares one’s bed rather than the shadowy criminal figure.”

That is fabulous.