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         “BOOK HIM.” I SHOUTED THROWING A STIFF—LEGGED MIGUEL LANDERS INTO
         
         THE POLICE OFFICE COIJNTER.HE TURNED AROUND SPAT AT MY FEET.I LOOKED0
         
         UP AT HIM AND RAISED QNE EYEBROW.A SHEEPISH LOOK CROSSED OVER HIS
         
         FACE.
         
           “BREANNA,WHAT HAVE WE TOLD YOU ABOUT JUST GOING OUT ON THE
         STREETS AND PICKING ANYONE?” CAPITAN GREENE SAID.I TRIED TO LOOK
         HURT.
         
           “I’M SORRY CAPPY—POOH,MY HORMONES TOOK OVER.” I SAID SMILING
         SLYLY.I STILL HAD MIGUEL’S SHIRT COLLAR.
         
           “BOOK HIM.” I REPEATED.CAPITAN GREENE REGWARDED ME REGALLY.
         
           “WHAT CHARGES?” JUST THEN MIGUEL STARTED TALKING IN RA.r’IiJ S?AAISH.
         
           “NO COMPRENDO!” I SHOUTED.I SHOOK HIM. “TALK ENGLISH!” MIGUEL
         
         STARTED TO STRUGGLE.I GRABBED A HANDFUL OF HAIR AND PULLED HIS
         
         HEAD BACK. “ENGLISH!” I SHOUTED.THERE WASN’T ONE COP IN THAT PLACE
         
         WHO WASN’T WATCHING ME.MIGUEL TRIED TO PULL HIS HANDS FREE OF THE
         
         HANDCUFFS.I PULLED HIS HAIR.
         
           “TODD SASHY!” HE FINALOY SCREAMED.
         
         “WHAT ABOUT HIM?”
         
           “IT WAS HIS PLAN! HE SET UP THE WHOLE SCHEME!” MIGUEL TYID TO
         SNAP HIS HEAD AWAY.
         
         “WHAT SCHEME!” I SHOUTED IN HIS EAR.MIGUEL CRIED OUT IN PAIN.
         “THE WINNIMORE MURDERS!OKAY?!” HE SCREAMED BACK.I SHOVED HIM AGAINST
         THE DESK.I LOOKED AT CAPITAN.
         
           “BOOK HIM.” AGAIN CAPITAN LOOKHD AT ME.
         
         “WHAT CHARGES?”
         
           “ACCOMPLICE IN MURDER AND THEFT.” THE HUGE SECURITY GUARD TOOK
         MIGUEL.JUST THEN MY FATHER,WHO WAS CHEIF CAME OUT ONE HAD TOYING WITH
         HIS SUSPENDERS.
         
           “BREANNA! IN MY OFFICE,NOW!” I TUGGED AT A SHOULDER—LENGTH LOCK
         
         OF MY RAVEN BLACK HAIR.MY BEST FRIEND,SKYE,ONCE SIAD I WAS LIKE
         
         A ‘MOONLIT RIVER GENTLY SINGING UNDER THE WEEPING WILLOWS’. I DON’T
         
         KNOW,I JUST THINK I’M PRETTY.I HAVE SHOULDER LENGTH RAVEN BLACK
         
         HAIR THAT’S STYLISHLY CUT AND A HANDFUL OF BANGS.MY FACE IS OVAL