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Normally I would have been offended, except after what Merodie Davies had called me, Baumbach’s epithet sounded like a coet out of your car and give me some"

Baumbach came out of his car quickly "Let’s settle this like men," he said

I took G K by the elbow and pulled her behinddistance, his hands stiff at his side

"Let’s go," he said

I deliberately tucked my hands between my belt and the small of my back and leaned toward hiht his hands up, his face red with anger But he hesitated He wasn’t as dumb as he looked

"Go ’head," I told him "The first one is free"

He glanced fro this?" he asked

"You chicken? C’mon"

Bauainst his car door I brought oing on?" G K asked

"Cameras," I said

"Cah on the concrete walls at the top and bottom of the ramp

"Security ca the video as evidence, and he’s the one who does ti cell"

"I like it"

"You sonuvabitch," Baumbach calledto setto set me up because--you ain’t a man You have a problem, you should settle it like a man"

"You’re a bad cop, Boyd, and it’s this childish notion ofto take you off the board It’s my civic duty"

Baumbach clenched like a man about to throw a punch "This ain’t over," he said

He flung a glance at G K, pivoted, and cli tires echoed through the rarinned as she moved to the driver’s door of her own car

"Well, that was fun," she said

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To say Nina Truhler was s and round--mere words simply didn’t do her justice I would have told her so, too If only she had been at Rickie’s when I arrived

It took G K twenty-five h, like uideline than a law She droppedme her business card On it she had written her personal cell and home numbers, as well as her home address She told es of er side of my Audi