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Her mother was a traditional stay-at-ho with that, but since she’d been a kid, she’d known it wasn’t for her “I’ood one”

A low, hu to your last review you’re not”

“Because Stephens has it in for ht there

“Or because you refuse to get along with anyone”

Because she refused to shut up and take insults and innuendoes? Because she was supposed to accept hu quite nicely with uys You read my complaint They back me up”

“A few of them do, but most of them will keep their mouths shut because they knoerful Stephens is,” Joel pointed out “His uncle has the e, and hisbrass She works right here at One Police Plaza She’s a cop, too You can’t claiyny here”

Oh, but she’d met many women who hated other women “Has she read the complaint?”

“I never let it get to her If you think she’ll be surprised and horrified, you’re wrong She knows her son” Joel looked at her with nauseating sympathy “She’ll protect hiot further than h It’s time to think about your future”

“This isn’t about my future This is about yours” She wasn’t a coossip about her as a reflection on hie vows they’d taken had

“Of course it is I have to think of my career, but this is for our future We should talk about that, too” He looked down at his watch “But it will have to wait I have a lunch date with our FBI liaison There’s so on at StratCast and I want our boys in on it”

So the FBI orking a high-profile case and Joel wanted his face on caoing to go to Staten Island”

“Then you can choose to quit the force altogether,” Joel said without any sympathy “I told you not to file those complaints I believe I advised you not to join ESU I told you that you wouldn’t fit in You ignored my advice and the advice of your father”