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“I meant for you too,” Mel snapped back at him.

When dinner was ready the three of them plus Logan sat down and ate. They were loud and boisterous, all of them talking and adding to the conversations. When Leah had grown up, a dinner like this would have never happened in her house. They ate in virtual silence with her mom or dad asking her questions here and there about her day or life.

This was better. Way better.

And when she thought about her future and what she wanted it to look like...loud, fun dinners with friends and family is what she saw.

Chapter 22

The days that Brandon had to work through the night were always the worst. And since he only had to do it four times a month, he figured there was no use trying to change his sleeping schedule. Which made for a very long two days of work. The only saving grace was that for the most part, nothing ever happened, so he was able to catch up on paperwork.

And right now, he had a lot of it.

Dealing with the Will situation had pretty much monopolized his time and he had let most of his other duties as the Chief of Police fall to the side.

So here he sat at two in the morning, reading permit and policy forms.

He had just signed a form for the high school car wash when the station phone rang.

“Cedarville Police,” he answered.

“Chief Graham?” a voice on the other end said.

“Yeah,” he said cautiously.

“This is Deputy Foster over in Woodridge. We’ve had an incident over here that might have something to do with the man you are looking for.”

Brandon was stunned. “Really?”

“We had several break-ins at homes and it seems the only thing taken was at the last house and it was insulin.”

Feeling it in his gut that this was the big break in the case he needed he said. “I’ll be right there.”

He hung up, grabbed his gun and phone and jumped in his car. He called his deputy on call for the night which just happened to be Tim and had him cover in Cedarville. He wasn’t willing to let the people of his town suffer if anything were to happen.

Fifteen minutes later he pulled up to the address that Deputy Foster had given him. He found the Deputy standing next to Chief Ray Scott.

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