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Gwen Menard had Gabrielle’s full attention when she started to speak

“What can you tell us, Mr Connelly, about the Grayson deal?”

“Nothing”

“What do you know about it?” Agent Mark Howard addressed Liam with narrowed eyes

“Nothing”

“Is Liam in trouble?” Gabrielle had to ask

“No,” Agent Menard said, directing a serious look at Gabrielle before returning her attention to Liam “At least at this point we have no reason to believe he is”

“Obstruction of justice is a cri Lia for a reaction to his not so veiled threat Gabrielle could have told hi his time, not only because she believed Liam wouldn’t have committed a crime, but because she’d neverhis reaction to threats

Liaht, Liam,” she said, just in case he didn’t know that this threat was not e about this Grayson deal, and it turns out to be illegal, and you didn’t say anything, you could be brought up on charges”

He nodded, pulling his hands out of his pockets to cross his arms Not in self-protection, but in a way that showed a confidence that was all Liam “The Grayson deal is the Indian land,” he told her

“I thought that sold to Senator Billingsley”

“It did”

Menard and Hoere looking at them intently

Liaotten all of the agreees he’d needed and actually purchased the land that bordered the Indian reservation He’d been on the top floor when his father sold the completed development

A sale that had never made sense to her The elder Connelly had wanted that land, to develop it, seeree the develop and housing community he’d envisioned, and then had promptly sold it