Levi choked on his end of the phone and Priya's eyebrows shot into her hairline. Even I wasn't sure where that had come from.

"I could spare fifteen minutes," he said.

"A glowing recommendation."

"And have five left over after I'd gotten you off."

"If I was that hard up," I said, "I'd visit the laundromat with the rattly dryer and do the job myself. Gavriella's workplace. Houdini me into looking like her so I can pay a visit and see what shakes out. ...