Once you made partner, you almost had to kill someone to lose your job, well, kill someone and get caught. 'Wow' seems too junior high, but 'amazing' doesn't cover it, I said. The looks they exchanged said plainly that that hadn't been what they had in mind. Cut the act, and tell us what's up.
I patted his hands and stepped back just enough so that he had to let me go, or hold on when he knew I didn't want him to. I wasn't sure I actually believed that down to my toes, but the panic subsided, and everybody got off of me. I caught my breath in time to scream. I let Primo's rage meet the great seething mass of my own rage.
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