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“And to avoid killing him if he’s innocent of the crime,” Newman added

“That, too,” I said

Neent for his phone to call the judge who’d put his naet the last cup of coffee out of the pot Maybe I could persuade Leduc to et to see the sunrise, and no one was talking about sleep We were going to need more coffee

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LEDUC MADE COFFEE, and we helped hiot anyone to answer a phone at any of the numbers that he had for this area They were all still asleep an hour past dawn on a Sunday, lazy bastards, and we still hadn’t gotten the actual judge on the phone Clerks were useful, but they couldn’t change the paraned it could do that In all the tie to change a warrant, so I had no idea hoorked or even if there was a step in the legal system to cover it Surely there was, or if not, there needed to be, but I honestly didn’t knoasn’t used to this iven h time to text Edward and let him know Olaf was here Since he hadn’t texted back or called, I had to assume he was on a plane on his way here

Olaf ca for so creepy, or at least sexist, but he asked, “Do you normally just wait like this?”

“Wait like what?”

Heyet another phone call and Kaitlin trying to get the ies of the two very different footprints up on the coe when he finally returned the call Livingston and Duke were talking quietly together in the far corner

“While they gather evidence and talk to lawyers, do you just wait and do nothing?”

“I don’t know”

He frowned down at me

“I’ve never been on a case like this I coet out of Dodge”

His frown became a scowl “You meant that as a metaphor of some kind, didn’t you?”

I had a lish, though he spoke it perfectly now The one thing that travels least well between languages is slang I’d grown up watching old Westerns, and he probably hadn’t

“Even I have never hung one of my victims,” he said