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Trouble was, she didn’t have a job to go back to. When her parents called her to come back and help, she asked her boss for leave and he told her if she left, she was unemployed. In anger, she’d sent out resumés online as she packed to come home. As soon as she found another process service position, she’d go back to Houston and demand to be treated like a capable woman.
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Spencer’s jaw tightened as she left. Stubborn. Clueless. Muleheaded, as his mom used to say about him. And she was going to get herself injured. Maybe killed. But what she didn’t fully understand, was just how unpredictable Craig was right now.
“So, Spencer, what happened to you?”
He turned to the sheriff and realized they were all watching him watch Kenna Lawrence strut out the door. He shrugged his shoulder.
“I took a tumble while jogging. I looked down at my watch and wasn’t paying attention.”
The sheriff nodded but said nothing. His eyes shifted to Baxter’s, and he grinned.
“Wouldn’t have anything to do with the scuffs on her shoes, does it?”
He stared, not sure what to say. They’d done nothing wrong, and he told the truth, sort of. But he’d pretended not to know her when she walked in and that likely looked suspicious. Luckily, Baxter didn’t give him anymore time before asking about the kid.
“So, what happened out there?”
Spencer shook his head. “Some kid cut my wires. I chased the little shit but couldn’t catch him. Dark hair. About five foot six or seven. I’ve never seen him before.”
Baxter slowly nodded. “How bad?”
Spencer dragged his hand through his hair. “I can get it fixed today.”
“Sounds good.”
He finished his bottle of water and tossed the empty bottle into the recycle bin before striding out of the trailer. He heard Henry stand and follow him, but he didn’t look back. As his feet hit the dirt, he noticed the little divot on the ground from Kenna’s heels and he rolled his shoulder again.
“Hey,” Henry called.
“Yeah.”
“Where did the kid go?”
He turned to Henry. “That kid ran into town. It’s the weirdest thing. He kept going between the businesses, not up the hill.”
Henry nodded and looked toward the mountain as they stood at the base. “I thought that was the direction he was heading. What do you make of that?”
“I don’t know. Some of the BRR are coming down for jobs. So, does his dad or mom work down here and he was running toward them? Is he throwing me off?”
Henry looked down the road and sighed. “I don’t know if we’ll ever figure them out. What are the chances it’s just some random kid from town pulling a stunt or dared to do it?”
“It seems pretty specific and the same thing the BRR has done repeatedly.”
“That could be the dare.”
Spencer shook his head. “I’m gonna reconnect those wires so we have cameras before we go home.”
“Need help?”
“No. I’ve got it. You can finish your patrol around the perimeter if you want and I’ll finish up the wiring, then we can go home.”
He heard the crunching of tires on the gravel, so he crossed toward the tower where his damaged camera wiring waited. Turning, he froze when he saw Kenna Lawrence climbing out of her white Jeep.
She turned her head to him, and the sun glinted on her dark hair. She shrugged her shoulders. His feet ate up the distance between them, and he noticed she fidgeted slightly as he neared. Henry stopped across the grounds and watched.
“You’re back.”
