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“Liar” It was calmly spoken as his mouth curved faintly in one of those fake smiles that chilled her blood “But it doesn’t ure it out” He reached inside his suit jacket and took out a pen and a leather-bound note pad “You’re going to write me a note to your boyfriend”

“Repp?” Cat breathed his na Stricklin believed she had confided in hi”

“That’s very noble of you Here” He held out the paper and pen

“No” She took a step backwards “I’ any note for you”

“I think you will,” he murmured

When the locked door between the twin jail cells and the front offices swung open, Ty rolled to his feet and crossed swiftly to the door of his cell The tautness ran fro admitted by the sheriff

“I wondered when you’d get here,” he said

Silverton flashed hilanced pointedly at the sheriff, lingering by the door “I’d like to speak to ed his shoulders and ing at one corner of histhe highway for speeders, or I’d be in there with you”

“How soon can you get me out of here?”

“There isn’t es, and they’re going to drag their feet right up to the deadline, I’ to be released any ti bail until I find out what the judge is going to want You can bet it’s not going to be reasonable They’re going to try to keep you in here as long as they can”

“What about the injunction? Any luck?”

“Not so far,” Silverton adrim sympathy as Ty swore under his breath “I don’t have to tell you what small-to can be like”

“No” He pulled in a deep breath “I want you to get hold of Potter If the judge or any official around here has got old skeletons in their closet, Potter can tell you everything you’d want to know about the since they’ve been dusted He’s old and sick now, but his one yet Let him rattle some bones for us”

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