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"What can I do for you?" Ezra leaned back in the chair, ignoring my advice, much the same way he did every day prior

"What do you know about the cops?" I asked

His expression changed and he shifted his eyes between Bobby and e, Bobby kept his s so he could play with his shoelace

"I’ to have be aze back on me

"How come you weren’t questioned in November when the lycan attacked?" I asked pointblank, and his dark eyes never leftti with the people in power," Ezra answered evenly "But if you’re looking to get out of a speeding ticket, I won’t get involved with that"

"No It’s not that" I chewed ly and swiveled the chair side-to-side "This is about Jane"

"Yes," I nodded

"Nothing you find will bring her back or bring you any comfort" He looked out the darkness behind the house, the frozen lake looking black in the night "Death, unfortunately, doesn’t have a cure, not even for the pain of those left behind"

"Maybe not," I said, but I wasn’t sure that I believed that "But soirls, and I’d rest a lot easier if I kneho it was"

"And you think that the police knoho it is but haven’t bothered to catch hihed and shook "

"Maybe they do," Ezra allowed "What would you do with that infor that they’re hiding soain fro frustrated All of this felt so logical in the living rooh everything

"Just because we don’t understand why they’d cover up so doesn’t mean they aren’t," Bobby said, and we both turned to look at him

"Now you just sound paranoid," I said

"Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you," Bobby said with an expression so serious that I couldn’t help but laugh