Love And Honor: A Time Travel Romance (The Lightwood Affair Book 3) by M. S. Parker

Author:M. S. Parker [Parker, M. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Belmonte Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

I carried the keychain back to the house, barely touching it. I dropped it into a plastic bag and then Jasper and I tried to figure out the best way to handle our discovery. We’d marked the spot where we’d found it, but both of us had felt that leaving it wasn’t the best idea. I had no way of knowing if the owner would come back for it, and I didn’t entirely trust the cops not to have someone on the Lockwoods’ payroll.

I couldn’t not turn it in though. The only explanation for the keychain being where I’d found it was that someone with a connection to the Lockwoods had cut through the Benz’s property onto mine and that they’d left the same way. It made sense. The way the property was set up, heading towards the Benz’s would offer the most coverage and since they’d have to go through a couple miles of trees to get to a road, no one would’ve looked that way.

In the end, it was a call from Henley telling me that I’d gotten my emergency hearing on Friday regarding the vineyard that made me decide. Jasper went with me to the police station, but I went in alone to give Reed and Rheingard the keychain. Neither of them seemed impressed with my find, but at least I’d given it to them, and if they happened to ‘lose’ it, I’d taken pictures.

Once that was done, it was time to move on to preparing for the trial that would decide if I’d be allowed to keep my home or if I’d lose it to my former in-laws.

Even though the Lockwoods were from Texas, I knew they had a long reach. Allen’s uncle had been well-liked in St. Helena and I didn’t doubt for a moment that they’d use that to try to influence the judge. There was also Celeste. Allen’s brother, Marcus, had married Celeste Ryan after getting her pregnant when she was nineteen. With him belonging to the rich and prominent Lockwood family, he might’ve been able to get away without the shotgun wedding, except the girl he’d knocked up had been the local sheriff’s only daughter. Even Marcus hadn’t been that stupid. And he actually did seem to love Celeste, so I supposed I shouldn’t judge.

I’d never really gotten to know her, but I hadn’t wanted to. Anyone who could fall in love with a dick like Marcus...well, let’s just say I knew even if Allen had still been alive, Celeste and I would never have been BFFs. Once Marcus had married the sheriff’s baby girl and became the heir apparent to the oil business, it had been all roses and rainbows. The sheriff had made sure that the Lockwoods never got into real trouble. Granted, he was just the sheriff of a small Texas town, but law enforcement often did favors for each other, as long as no one was trying to take over jurisdiction of something.

I needed to convince the

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