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“Legally you are still bound to kill the person named on the warrant within seventy-two hours from the moment the warrant is live”

“And the fact that legally my only option is to kill someone I no is innocent just because he happens to be a wereanimal—sorry, Therianthrope—is why the supernatural-execution systeal options”

“You cos, Anita The law is clear”

“Marshal Jeffries, are you seriously telling us that you could go in there and kill Bobby Marchand knowing that he is innocent of this crime?” the lawyer asked

“You know that rule in court that you don’t ask questions unless you know the ansill help your case?” I asked

She nodded “It’s not always possible, but yes”

“Otto’s anson’t help you”

She looked at the bigme you would kill an innocent man?”

“I do ave , or maybe that was just me, because Ms Amanda Brooks didn’t seem to be afraid of him

“The entire warrant systehtmare,” she said

Edward and I agreed with her Olaf just listened to us talk after that I think he was still upset because he and I weren’t going to get to torture and kill anyone together this time

“Go tell Bobby the good news,” Edward said in Ted’s thickest down-ho smile with it

“Oh, he heard you,” Angel said fro seductively

I’d have looked like I’d broken ; she ht She wasted a smile on me and then turned it behind her toward the cells and Bobby

I was sel didn’t move, just turned that red-lipsticked smile back toward et past, but she slint in her eyes that ale in her face and squeezed past her hip, rubbingswell of it If we hadn’t had a lawyer and other cops watching, I ht not have I could see Bobby in the cell beyond her, and he was , and I was s back like an idiot