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“No I hope he turns on Benny and the rest of the crew and they have their people shank him while he’s locked up He’ll never make it to a trial date, he’s too soft”

“What if the feds try and put him in witness protection like they did to that bitch who sold Dovie out?”

If they put him in witness protection—WITSEC—then I would track hiuilt when I did it; at least that’s what I tried to convince myself I would do

“If that happens I’ll find him and you can do what you need to do”

His dark eyes tookwas true I hated that it was there, the distrust he couldn’t shake I didn’t regret the choices I had made that had sent hiotten him free of Novak the only way possible I did, however, hate that it had broken the ironclad bond we had always had

“What I need to do won’t be pretty”

“I know that Speaking of doing things that aren’t pretty, you think you can take a few hours one day next week and swing by the university with me?”

One of his jet-black eyebroinged up

“For?”

I rubbed the back of iving Brysen a hard time”

He chuckled a little and walked to the He involved?”

“Probably not But I’ to do it anyway”

He put a hand on the polished fender of the car and looked at me steadily

“Do you think the reason you are so hooked into this girl is because she relossy and shiny, kind of like you used to be before I dragged you down into the gutter”

I prodded at the cut in the center of ht about what he asked She was glossy and shiny, but inside she was tough and kind of gritty