Burn the Dawn (Brand of Justice Book 2) by Lisa Phillips

Author:Lisa Phillips [Phillips, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798885521482
Publisher: Two Dogs Publishing, LLC
Published: 2022-11-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Kenna stumbled to the closest office chair and slumped into it. Adrenaline had allowed her to gain the win, but two hours later she was long past the crash again.

Two hours where the coroner had sent EMTs to pick up two bodies this time. All the evidence collection. The report she’d made to Deputy Samuels when he showed up. The realization they now had both Lara’s phone and the dead man’s to look at.

“Who was he?” Davis hadn’t shown up at the crime scene but breezed in the door to the storefront temporary sheriff’s office now.

Samuels looked up from his desk. “I’m checking. He had a wallet on him, and ID.”

Davis came all the way over to the desk where she sat. “You look like death.”

Irene gasped from her spot over at the reception area. “You don’t tell a lady that!”

Kenna lifted her hand, palm out. “It’s fine. It’s probably true.”

Irene frowned. “I’ll make another pot of coffee.”

Kenna was about eighteen hours past coffee being of any help, even if it would make her feel better to hold it in her hands and take a sip.

Davis started to speak. Before he could ask her whatever it was that she’d already told Samuels in her statement, she said, “I can use this computer, right?”

Deputy Samuels said, “Yes. Davis, you take a look at Lara’s phone.” He lifted the evidence bag from the desktop where he sat. Davis came over and retrieved it. “I’m running background on our dead guy, Jonas Walker. You want to take his phone?”

She wanted him to toss it to her in its evidence bag. However, getting up and taking it from him was a much better idea even if it took more effort. She didn’t need them seeing her try to catch something right now.

Kenna was surprised she hadn’t hit a mailbox on the way here but had bumped the curb on the turn into the strip mall parking lot. Thankfully he hadn’t mentioned it.

“What if it’s password protected?” Davis lifted Lara’s phone in the bag.

Kenna said, “We removed that function before they took the bodies away. You’re good to access it now.”

“You don’t look like you could hit the broad side of a barn from six feet away. How’d you manage to kill him?”

Of course he wanted to talk about that instead of getting on with this work. The list of reasons why Samuels passed his coworker off to her was growing.

“I don’t believe in luck. It’s more likely it was just adrenaline and a whole lot of instinct.”

Thankfully he hadn’t been there to see her unable to pick the gun up off the ground. She had ended up standing over her dropped pistol while she called 911 and asked for Deputy Samuels. In the end, he was the one who’d retrieved it. And after she gave him her statement, he handed it back to her. She’d left it in her car.

She set her elbows on the desk and pulled the phone out, scrolling through the apps Jonas Walker used most often.

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