Remember When

half-six, Lieutenant. Your shift's over anyway."
    She frowned at her wrist unit and saw he was right. "It's the thought that counts. Let's go home, put a little more time into year two."
    He took her hand as they walked out together. "What's done with the diamonds until they're turned over to whoever might be the legal owner?"
    "Sealed, logged, scanned and locked in an evidence box that is locked in one of the evidence vaults in the bowels of this place." She slanted him a look. "Good thing you don't steal anymore."
    "Isn't it?" He slung a friendly arm around her shoulders as they took the glide. "Isn't it just?"
    And deep, deep under the streets of the city, in the cool, quiet dark, the diamonds waited to shine again.
    The End

About the Author
    NORA ROBERTS is the number-one New York Times-bestselling author of more than one hundred novels. There are more than two hundred million copies of her books in print.
    J.D. ROBB is the number-one New York Times-bestselling author of seventeen novels of futuristic romantic suspense featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke.
    NORA ROBERTS and J.D. ROBB share a house in Maryland, a husband, and a web-site that you can visit at www.noraroberts.com.