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“Yes, Ashley,” Erin said “That’s what Mrs Cotton told me”

“No tax records with a social security number to check No wonder he hasn’t ever filed an income tax return”

“We can turn this over to the IRS, but it won’t help with our case, will it?” Jena asked

“No Damn I really can’t understand this” Ashley’s frustration continued to build “I don’t buy it The only records on a fifty-eight-year-old man are a birth certificate, so”

“Maybe Anna was lying,” Jena said “I’ve scoured the records in Louisiana, and haven’t found anything to help us”

“We should have found so what Anna had said

He had a thick Cajun accent What are we ?

“All we can do is keep digging So has to surface we can use” Ashley sent a text to Phoebe, as currently in court on another case, about the little they’d uncovered

She was surprised when a text came back

In recess for the rest of the day on this one I’ing

Will do And when Nic and Sylas get back from their lesson at Phase Four, I’ll put them on the search with Jena and me We need all hands on deck on this one, Phoebe

They didn’t havewas set for next week

Chapter Eighteen

Sylas sat next to Phoebe in the Swanson County Courthouse Nic sat on the other side of him Their client, Jennifer Steele, was in the chair next to Nic

Mrs Cotton was on the stand and one of the plaintiff’s attorneys was questioning her