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“No,” Newot out of the car before I could ask why

I guessed ere both allowed to keep our secrets I got out on my side of his car and had to double-tis

“What the fuck were you thinking, Rico? This is the kind of shit that Troy usually pulls You’re supposed to be the s, or maybe it was just the acoustics of the stone arch they were standing under thata verbal rockslide thrown at you

Deputy Rico , but Leduc yelled, “No, I don’t want to hear one oddamn excuse from you, Rico!”

We were close enough to hear the deputy say, “But it’s their house How can I tell them they can’t come into their own house?”

“This is not their house This is our cri the flat bri that kept the faces was the hat

It tookinto the skin of Rico’s forehead above his eyebrows He was taller than the sheriff, so he had to be careful not to stand as straight as he could or the hat’s edge would have cut across his eyes On so your ass chewed to talking to your union rep, but I guessed on a force this small, there wasn’t a union Who do you coher than the boss?

Thanks to the sheriff yelling at the gate intercoas had not only allowed fae the security code, which meant without it the police didn’t have access to the crime scene unless the family let them in Family is almost always the first suspected in aamok at the crime scene until you’re certain they didn’t do it

Newh to be heard “When did they release Jocelyn from the hospital?”

Leduc stopped yelling, just stood there with his hat brie poised to strike He nearly growled his next words into Deputy Vargas’s face “Answer the marshal’s question, Rico”

Rico sed so hard, I could see it from yards away “I don’t know, Sheriff”

Leducthe other man He closed his eyes and took a deep breath I think he was counting to ten He spoke in a very careful voice, as if he was afraid of what he’d do if he lost his te has Jocelyn been here, Rico?”

“It’s not Joshie, Sheriff”

“You said the fa at him

“Yeah, Muriel and Todd Babington are inside”