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He hadn’t even known Williams had two kids He’d met Mary Ellen a time or two, at Christmas parties Knew the couple had kids Just not how es Williams’s specialty had been buyout acquisitions—hostile takeovers, putting people out of work, stripping theeneration or ht there should be another way

It was an area he and Walter had never agreed upon Which was one of the reasons he hadn’t mentioned the purchase of the Arapahoe to his father

“I’ered hand “I’uard, here to offer you my services”

“Your services?” He didn’t need a thug Nor could he afford a payroll at the moment

“I’s that technically I don’t know I hear them from sources who pay a lot of money to be nonexistent”

“And you want to tellthat leads you to believe I have personal security needs?”

“Your father has Williams”

“My father received threats” Chin high, Lia said but asn’t And why

“You had a visit from the FBI yesterday”

“How do you know about that?”

Tanner shrugged

He wasn’t going to hire hi it, but because he wanted to find out as much as he could about Tanner—namely who had sent him and why—he asked, “Just what is it you think I need?”

“I think that until you find out what’s going on with your father’s company, there are a lot of people out there who you can’t trust People doing things you can’t see”

“But you see them?”

The —there was a lot Liauys So who did Elliott Tanner work for? The good side or the bad? Was Williams a suspect? He was one of the five Walter had named