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"Razor!" the guy shouts from the other side of the screen door My back’s to him and he sure as shit won’t walk in without a warrant or probable cause "Bring that file back out here"

"Phone’s ringing," I yell, knowing full well he can’t see what I’ I close the file, then wave it over oes silent, but then ins

I answer and it’s Oz on the other end He and Chevy--they’ve been ot trouble?"

"Could say that How’d you know?"

"You’re late to orientation, and Pigpen saw someone with Jefferson County plates headed down your drive He gave you a few minutes to show on the main road, and when you didn’t"

Oz drops off He doesn’t have to explain The club, as always, has pen The brother adopted s on the door "Coht with that file in hand, I will bust down this door"

"I gotta go" I hang up and stride out onto the porch The cop snatches the folder fropen and Man O’ War burst off their bikes and stalk in our direction

Pigpen earned his naain his attention Blond hair, blue eyesa late twentyso version of what I hope to be Man O’ War acquired his road na pain

"Got a warrant for sopen asks in a low voice that’s o, the guy was crawling around in the h he was recruited by the Army because of his mad computer skills, it was a bullet in the shoulder and chest he took saving soood The brother is da a conversation," the cop answers in a slol, "and I was leaving"

Pigpen clirass I lean against the house and stay the hell out of the way Most people say rant a wide berth when these two are pushed into irritable

Pigpen slides into the oes nose to nose To the cop’s credit, he doesn’t flinch

"He’s still in high school"

"Razor’s eighteen," the cop bites out "Legal age"

"Leave and don’t co theain, you’re dealing with me"