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“I jut broke up with irl, man I’m not ready to listen to you wax poetic about some redhead yet”

“Strawberry blonde, not red And when you are ready, I’ll be here I’ll even be your wingman”

Steven stood up “You er, from the sounds of it”

“The hell I won’t be” Holt’s phone rang, and he rested his hand on the receiver “Sheto hook o at her, but she left before I could have one So she’s in the past now…just like the rest of them”

“Famous last words, dude”

Holt flipped Steven off, and the other man left As soon as the door shut behind hiham”

“Hey,” his boss, Cooper Shillings, said “Can you come to my office, please?”

“Sure thing”

The line clicked off, and he stood When the head of Shillings Agency called you down to his office, you didn’t waste ti him, since he hadn’t wanted to stumble over his words in front of the man who could fire him, but he couldn’t avoid a direct call like that

When he got to Cooper’s door, he knocked once and heard, “Come in”

Holt walked in “What can I do for you?”

“I have a new assignment for you”

“Okay” Holt sat down in the chair across froreen eyes ”Where a?”

“There’s a proble hed “I need you to go over there and fix it ASAP, before my dad comes this afternoon He’s been in panic es I’ve ive hi his heels in”

Holt stood “On it”