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SOMEONE ELSE'S

SHADOW

Night's Edge Anthology

Barbara Hambly

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Contents

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

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NIGHTS EDGE

The publisher acknowledges the copyright holders of the individual titles as

follows:

HER BEST ENEMY

SOMEONE ELSE'S SHADOW

DANCERS IN THE DARK

ISBN 0-373-77010-3

All characters in this book have no existence outside the imagination of the

author and have no relation whatsoever to anyone bearing the same name or

names. They are not even distantly inspired by any individual known or

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unknown to the author, and all incidents are pure invention.

The edition published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A.

Printed in U.S.A.

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For George… and Baby

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CHAPTER ONE

Top

"Tessa?"

Dim light shone at the top of the first long flight of stairs. Maddie Laveau

hitched her duffle coat closer around her shoulders, glancing warily back at the

plate-glass door onto East Twenty-ninth Street. Yellow streetlights glared

through the glass doors into the narrow lobby, barely more than a widened

corridor with a caretaker's booth. Quincy the caretaker had gone home an hour

ago at ten, which was just as well, since Maddie wasn't in the mood for a forty-

five-minute monologue on the subject of taxes and the Republican party. The

place smelled of moldy carpets and cigarettes smoked decades ago. The street

door had been locked, and Maddie had locked it again behind her the minute

she'd let herself in with Tessa's key.

But if her roommate had a key, she told herself—duplicated from that of another

dancer, who'd duplicated it from one of the instructors who was no longer

teaching at the Dance Loft—God knew who else in New York had them.

Heart pounding, Maddie mounted the dark stairs.

"Tessa, are you there?"

Silence. Though the Glendower Building had always given Maddie the creeps, it

housed one of the most respected dance schools in the city. Maddie wasn't sure

why this was so—God knew there were other buildings in New York City,

including the one she lived in, just as old, just as shabby, just as dingily lighted.

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But from the first time she'd walked through its doors, twenty-two months ago

now, it had made her nervous, as if there was always something there looking

over her shoulder.

She climbed the long stairway quickly, two stories past the dancewear shop on

the first floor and the storerooms and offices on the second, glancing repeatedly

over her shoulder: Like someone could have been hiding in the lobby? A Barbie

doll couldn't have taken cover there. Someone had repainted the stairwell during

the last remodeling in the eighties with the neutral pinks and grays fashionable

then, but hadn't stripped the old wallpaper underneath or put in modern lighting.

The result was simply dingy, and Maddie guessed that underneath the gray

industrial carpeting lurked layers of carpet tiles and the brown linoleum stilt

visible on the upper floors. Uncovering the original wood, laid back in the

1890s, would be like revealing the stratification in some archaeological dig.

During the several months she'd taught belly dancing in one of the Dance Loft's

smaller studios, Maddie had always hated being in the building at night.

Charmian Dayforth, the owner, seemed to have no qualms about handing out

keys to students, instructors and the part-time office help that came and went

with the speed of Hollywood wives. After seven and a half years of living in

New York, Maddie moved through the building with great wariness, with one

hand in her coat pocket curled around a can of pepper spray.

Her roommate, Tessa, had been in town exactly six months. And while the girl

had a self-reliant barrio toughness to her, she was only eighteen.

Which was why Maddie was climbing the long flight of stairs from the lobby in

the semidark at eleven-fifteen on a January night, after dancing all evening at the

Al-Medina Restaurant on Lexington Avenue. The advanced ballet class

officially ended at ten, but the instructor frequently ran late, especially now, with

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the auditions for the American Ballet Academy coming up.

With the auditions approaching, Tessa would stay on later still.

This was not a good idea, in a neighborhood that wasn't anything to write home

about… Not that Tessa had anyone back in El Paso to write home to.

From the small and gloomy lobby at the top of the first flight ofstairs, Maddie

followed the light to the door marked The Dance Loft and pulled out the second

of Tessa's much-duplicated keys. The front office of the dance school was

identical to the dozens Maddie had seen in Baton Rouge, in New Orleans and in

New York over the twenty-three years since her first ballet class when she was

five: threadbare carpet, plywood paneling, posters displaying the names of

teachers. Rows of black-framed eight-by-tens of ballerinas floating weightless

and serene onstage, or head shots scribbled with autographs. Looking at the little

room through its glass door, Maddie had to smile as she put the key in ..fee-

lock…

But the door wasn't locked.

Damn it! Maddie was shocked. Tessa, for God's sake, when you're in here by

yourself, lock the door behind you! Didn't being raised by two drunks in a

domestic demilitarized zone teach you any distrust? This is the big city!

Tessa's dance bag lay in a corner of the big studio, where the fluorescents still

blazed twenty feet above the sprung wooden floor. From the door, Maddie

scanned the room. The mirrors threw back her own reflection, medium height

and still slim, though she'd put on ten pounds since her own stick-thin ballerina

days. Belly dancers might not get the respect ballerinas did, she reflected, but at

least they didn't have to starve themselves to get into productions. Her light-

brown hair; hung nearly to her waist, still curled into a maze of braids and twists,

the jeweled clasps in it incongruous against the drab green duffle coat and jeans.

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