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His dad added, “With the current DA retiring, we need someone”

“Ask Jackson Wilde He’s fro a defense attorney” Not entirely true, but it was a living

“Do you love your too-big caseload, son? I never knohat city you’re in until you tell as? Hell, even in Elko you’re working at least three”

“Elko may be small but it’s flooded with people who needany new cases” He took another bite of his lunch and saw soh the diner’s entry

Sheriff Lyle Byrd of Elko County walked straight up to the for Anna or Danielle to lead hiht lawman demanded

Brandon didn’t like Byrd’s tone or the look in his eye The sheriff of Elko wasn’t a man to be trifled with The h Brandon had never been able to prove it, yet, he believed Byrd had planted and tampered with evidence on several occasions to uilty or not “Why do you want to knohere my brother is, Sheriff?”

“What are you doing up here in Wilde, counselor?” Byrd asked with a smirk

What an ass “Lunch with my dad, if you must know, but you haven’t answered my question”

“I don’t plan on answering it either” The sheriff turned to his father “You’re a law like one Where is Alex Champion?”

“You have a warrant, Lyle?” his pop asked

“I just need to question hiht”

Woman? Had Alex made thefor her, too? “What do you want to question them about?”

“I’ man” Byrd frowned and then looked at his dad “Why the cat and otten where you came from? It isn’t here”

“I am the sheriff in Silver County, Lyle Not you Either you answer Brandon’s question or you can go back to Elko”

“Look, I’ on an attemptedto the victiht in Elko The attack occurred at noon yesterday Soht be?”