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"I know your kind," she said "I’ve dealt with your kind all reedy beyond belief All you care about is what you can get for yourself--what you can take from me for yourself! Just like my father Andfro If you coarded Cilia closely There was much to admire There was much more that made me want to bash her brains in The story she had told about her father, her brother, and Brian Becker--it was true Looking into her hate-filled eyes, I kneas true I could forgive her all the rest Trying to protect her niece, going to Muehlenhaus, certainly, I could forgive her for that But cold-blooded ht have been bastards, but one of the first things I was taught as a cop was you can’t choose the vie, and I was still too much of a cop to let it slide Yet what could I do about it? If I took it to the cops, I’d have to give them all the rest, too, and I couldn’t do that Not to Silk Not to Merodie Besides, where was the evidence? It was ainst hers, and eous story she told ripped Cilia’s elbow in a way that made her cry out in pain and releaseher elbow There was no pain in her eyes, though Only anger and hatred

"You’re a dangerous wo about you"

They call Minneapolis City Hall the "Pink Palace" because of its Caranite facade Room 108 in the Pink Palace was reserved for the Minneapolis Police Department’s homicide unit No outsider was allowed entry without an escort, so I had called ahead to warn Lieutenant Clayton Rask that I was co and to request that he fetch Lieutenant John Weiner fro I was quickly ushered to Rask’s desk It was overnment desks served all the other officers in the departes, I decided

Neither officer rose to his feet or offered

Rask said, "Look at you What rock did you crawl out fro solely to my appearance

"You have a homicide," I said

"I have several homicides," Rask said

"Mollie Pratt"

"Have you couess that was his idea of humor

"We both knoho did it," I said

He rose quickly from the chair next to Rask’s desk

"Don’t push it," Weiner warned

"I don’t knoho did it," Rask said "Tell me"

"Richard Scott Nye," I said "He lived next door to Mollie Pratt before he was busted for dealing meth--that’s how theyhim, either Weiner here has him in custody at the Anoka County Correctional Facility He and the county attorney are protecting him He’s their chief witness in the ht have heard about them It was in all the papers"