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“Coruff I didn’t think I was the only one as happy to have an interruption

“You texted, sir,” a woh the door

“Yes, I want you to relieve Deputy Frankie Anthony and send her up here”

“Will do, sir,” she said, and closed the door behind her much more softly than she’d knocked

“So you don’t believe me,” Leduc said

“I never said that,” Livingston said

“You’re about to double-check my story with my own deputy Fuck that, Dave You and I have known each other too many years for you to doubt my word”

“It’s not your word I’ston said

“Then what is it?”

“Some cases are harder on us than others, Duke,” he said It took ston’s version of kind

“You think I can’t handle this one? You think I’ve gone soft?”

“No, Duke, I’d never think that”

“Then, what the hell, Dave? Frankie is going to backfor the poor wereleopard, too?”

“You know me better than that, Duke”

“I thought I did”