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"Should you have beenSuppose he said yes?

"I would’ve liked it," he said at last "But I wasn’t expecting it Not after all that happened"

"You s? Or when you shot Chief Inspector Gamache?"

"When you say it like that it sounds pretty bad," said Beauvoir, but he ser was the one thing he did right He’d saved Ga it

Few, if any, would have had the courage to shoot Lacoste wasn’t sure she would have

"You could’ve stopped hts, just as I had hiun down the Chief Why didn’t you stopyou?" she asked

"Yes Others would have Anyone else would have"

"I almost did But you pleaded with me to trust you"

"That’s it?"

"It wasn’t your words, it was your voice You weren’t angry or deranged You were desperate"

"You trusted your instincts?"

She nodded, gripping her hands together to stop the treht of that horrific day Having Beauvoir in her sights, her finger on the trigger And hesitating And watching hiun down Chief Inspector Gah she herself had been shot

Then seeing Chief Inspector Garound

"You trust your instincts," Jean-Guy said "That’s why you’ll reat leaders in the Sûreté, Isabelle And why I will be your loyal right hand for as long as you need me"

"And would you shoot hed Then realized it was the first ti play sat in the backseat like a passenger Listening to the the talk of murder

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