Page 64 of Ranger's Wildflower

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Partial plate.

Enough.

Blaze’s voice echoed in my head.

Registered to the Reynolds family.

I leaned back slowly in the chair and dragged a hand across my jaw.

“Alright,” I muttered. “Let’s see what you’re hiding.”

The Ranger office stayed dark except for the glow from the monitor while I dug through records.

Ownership transfers.

Family connections.

Registration history.

Piece by piece, the puzzle started shifting into place.

Then—

there it was.

Daniel Reynolds.

I went still.

Same last name.

Same family.

But not Cathy’s father.

Not her brother.

I clicked deeper into the family tree.

Brother-in-law.

A slow, humorless laugh left me.

“Of course.”

I kept scrolling.

Current position:

Sheriff — Gable Ridge County.

My jaw tightened hard.

Suddenly the entire case snapped into focus.

The missing footage.

The wiped logs.

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