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“I can’t bring the Coalition into this unless local law enforcement invites us in,” he said when I’d finished

“This is Newman’s warrant He’ll invite you in if I ask him to”

“Send it through official channels, and I can be there in two hours or less”

“Less wouldJean-Claude’s private jet,” I said

“One of the perks of the three of us dating hio he wouldn’t have said it that casually

Micah had been working his therapy hard to cos was our va heterosexual men doubt their sexual orientation for centuries Micah was lucky that Jean-Claude wasn’t into force, either metaphysically or in any other way, because he had the power to have rolled over , and just about anyone else he wanted to seduce Jean-Claude didn’t want anyone in his bed who didn’t want to be there He believed in willing partners and true love, luckily for all of us

“How long do official channels take?” I asked

“Anywhere from two hours to two days It depends on how much the other local cops don’t want the Coalition there and howto rock the boat”

I thought about that for a second “New to -the-boat thing”

“Then what do you suggest until the boat gets rocked?” he asked

“I need help keeping Bobby Marchand alive while the rest of us try to figure out if he did it or if he’s being framed”

“A lawyer could try to get an injunction”

“It won’t help us if Bobby transforms in his cell I haven’t been around any shapeshifter that uncontrolled during his change in years If I hadn’t been there, they’d have shot him, and it would have been a clean shoot”

“You wouldn’t have bla him?”

“No The only thing that kept hi him cold”