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“Then sign the warrant over”

“I was going to until this conversation Now if I sign it over to you, I’m afraid you’ll

use it to kill Jocelyn and Bobby” He looked at aze and held it He was the one who finally looked away “Fuck, Anita, just fuck I need some air” He opened the door and pushed past Olaf

“What is wrong, Newman?” he asked

“I had to tell him that there’s no Santa Claus,” I said

“I do not understand”

“She overshared Now he’s spooked, and he won’t sign the warrant over to any of us, Anita,” Edward said

“That isn’t what I meant to happen”

Edward sighed “You’re used to working with me, or Olaf, or Bernardo You can’t talk that plainly in front of the other h traditional police channels”

“What did Anita say to him?” Olaf asked

We told Olaf, and he sood huenuinely happy “Do you truly irl?”

“If she is only hiding the affair with her brother out of shame, then no, but if she is behind the frame job on Bobby, then if he dies, she dies”

“Only if Newives the warrant up,” Edward said

“Da, all of it Jocelyn or so us like a murder weapon”

“We’ll figure it out, Anita We always do”