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“I’ll confess, then”

“To murder?” I asked

“Yes, if it will save Bobby I should have fought Muriel years ago and taken him in He should have been our son, not Ray’s, and then he’d have never gone on that daotten attacked by that witch doctor leopard He’d be ours, and I’d have a son, but instead I let Muriel have her way like I always do, and now here we are”

He confessed to killing Ray Marchand He would not implicate his wife When Edward pressed him, he said, “I love Muriel I’ve always loved her”

By the time we’d heard his confession, I couldn’t decide if Muriel had committed the murder without him, or if neither of them had done it Either way, I knew Todd hadn’t, but we took his confession anyway It would save Bobby’s life, and because Todd was human, they’d have to collect evidence before his et a lawyer, which was soot The lawyer Micah had recoet here, though she had been filing paperwork on Bobby’s behalf None of it would have been in ti to use it as a jual precedent to help the next supernatural citizen caught in the warrant systereat, but they often don’t save the person involved at the beginning of the fight

We’d ally I had to let Bobby out of the cage since it was currently my warrant The warrant wouldn’t even be canceled It would just be postponed while the legal sides of the equation argued a themselves

My phone rang, and the caller ID said it was Newman, so I answered “How’s Carmichael?”

“Dead He never woke up froton to save Bobby?”

“Full confession,” I said

“Thank God Thank God” He sounded beyond exhausted, and it was as if hearing his voice let me suddenly feel how tired I was, too

“We’re going to give Bobby the good news,” I said

“He’s free, but his uncle killed his father, so is that good news?”

“I don’t have to kill hi to get out of this mess”

Newhed on his end of the phone “The doctor wants to talk to me I’ll be there as soon as I can”

“Do you want me to wait for you to let Bobby out?”