![]() I couldn't afford to lose control of myself like that. My beasts, the animals I carried inside me, were moving, responding to my rage. Why was I this angry? And down low in my body, lower than a gut, deeper than anything a surgeon would ever reach with a scalpel, I felt something stir. "I need away from you, then," I said, and I walked away. I took a step back, took a few deep even breaths, and said, "I need some air." It was disproportionate to the situation. I was angry, that fine burning anger that made the tips of my fingers tingle. I was perilously close to touching him, and hadn't realized it. You know that from court cases, every cop does, but cops love rumors, they f**king love 'em, so either way, believe what you want, but if you're not going to believe the truth, don't ask." I finished the last sentence pretty much up in his face, as much as the height difference would allow. It's easier to prove you did something than that you didn't. "It means I can't prove that I didn't sleep with someone. I learned a long time ago that I can't prove a negative." But you and every other son of a bitch here is going to believe what they believe, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. "We shared a room so he could keep me alive and safe, because I trust him to do that more than any other person on the planet. "Fine, you want me to ask, fine! Did you f**k Forrester last night?" "Accuse me of something and maybe I will admit it, but don't make snide remarks and tiptoe around the question just f**king ask, or don't." I've found a direct assault is best on shit like this. It's almost not personal to the woman it's just a guy thing. It wasn't that Raborn wanted to sleep with me, but there is a type of man who feels if a woman is sleeping around he shouldn't be left out. More a guy look, and I wondered if there was just a touch of sexual jealousy there. I hear you can convince most men to do just about anything you want 'em to do." He looked at Edward then, and it wasn't a friendly look. "Try your powers of persuasion on him, Blake. "What can we do to keep this from going pear-shaped?" I asked. It was the first thing he'd ever simply agreed to with me. Raborn tried to frown at me, but in the end he just shrugged. At least Tilford has, not many, but I'll take some experience over none," I said. He's taking that I'm-in-charge-so-I-have-to-be-in-charge attitude. ![]() "It wouldn't be so bad if Newman would let Tilford lead, but he's not. "Politics in the field always is," he said. "They think the new marshals will be easer to handle, but first they have to prove the newbies can do the job." "They're wanting to phase us old-timers out," Edward said. "Used to be, you'd be right, but you got too many marshals in your branch getting their toes stepped on, so they changed it."
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