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After one more tumbler, Tony proclaimed that he’d shut the door on hisback in his leather chair, he reht alerted hi to reach hies, or emails A quick brush of the screen told him that besides the plethora of emails, he had two missed calls with voice overnor’s office Tony didn’t knohy Preston, the new governor, would call, unless he was looking for a favor Tony had fulfilled reen, Iowa City’s prosecutor As much as it irritated Tony to be at the man’s beck and call, the prosecutor had done his part to help Tony by ridding the world of Ms Nichols’ accusations Quid pro quo Thehim that so the new governor happy would one day benefit Tony, he would endure the i after 7:00 PM, the Iowa state offices were obviously closed until tomorrow There was no need to bother with the voice mail now TonyAs he was about to check the second ht his eye, and he hts overtaken with the infors Industries had a substantial jump in stock price The attached article stated that the upsas due to the proposed quarterly revenue reports; the actual revenue reports wouldn’t be released until early nextif the reports would support the assu else was forgotten Even dinner slipped his mind until Catherine knocked on the door

After he ate, Tony turned off his private line and told his staff that unless the house was burning, he did not want to be interrupted Minutes turned to hours, and the March Iowa sky darkened, as Tony continued to work, read, and ued him earlier found theures and reports It wasn’t until nearly er otten about the voicethe screen, he saw that the alerts fro the list of numbers, Brent Simmons was the most recently missed call He’d also sent the last received text

"GOVERNOR PRESTON HAS CALLED ME SEVERAL TIMES TRYING TO REACH YOU I DON’T KNOW WHAT HE WANTS HE SAID HE MUST TALK TO YOU TONIGHT I’VE CALLED AND TEXTED ARE YOU OUT? PRESTON SAID TO CALL HIM NO MATTER THE TIME"

Tony shook his head and accessed the voice s, er, Anthony, this is Sheldon Preston I hope you get this ht I don’t care how late it is Please call me This is my personal cell You can reachwhat possible favor was so da the list of missed calls, he saw Sheldon’s private nuovernor wanted to speak to hiodly hour

Governor Sheldon Preston answered on the first ring "Mr Rawlings, thank you for returning my call"

"It’s late, Governor What do you need?"

"I wanted to tell you--before you saw the news tomorrow--Claire Nichols is out of prison"

Tony leaned forward, his aped in disbelief How could she be out of prison? She had only served fourteen months of her seven-year sentence "What in the hell do you mean she’s out of prison? Did she escape? What kind of facility is this state operating?"

"N-no, Mr Rawlings, she didn’t escape," Preston stuttered

"Then what happened? She had over five years left on her sentence"

"Yes, she did"