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give me a call when you figure it out,” he said as he gave Brooke a look that told her he knew more than he was willing to say at that moment.
    “I’ll take care of the door, sheriff, if you’ll just find the person responsible for all this, please,” Brooke pleaded.
    “I’ll clean up the glass on the floor if you’ll tell me where you keep your broom.  No argument, please.  You had a hard enough time walking on those crutches without trying to wield a broom,” he told her as he grinned.
    “The broom and dustpan are in the pantry, next to the back door,” Brooke said, and added, “thank you for the help and for the medical services.  I’m sure Digger is impatiently waiting for you to take him back home.”
    “He’s probably not the only one impatient for me to leave, if I read that look on your face correctly.  I’m almost done here and then it’s all yours.  I will warn you, I will be back to make sure you have a lock on your breaker box and a new window on your back door.  Don’t read anything into it, I’m just being a good neighbor,” he said as he returned the broom and dustpan back to the pantry.  What he hadn’t told Brooke was that he put all the glass into a clean trash bag.  Later he would send it to his friend who still worked in forensics, so his friend could check for prints or anything else that might tell them who was behind this.
    When Chase left, Brooke leaned back on the sofa and propped her foot on the coffee table.  It throbbed so much , that she stood up, and with crutches, walked to the medicine cabinet in the hall bathroom to get a bottle of aspirin and then to the kitchen for a glass of water.  She hoped the aspirin would help a little at least, before the officers arrived and tramped through her life.  She knew by now the sheriff must have done a background check on her, but if he hadn’t already, he would soon.  She wondered where David was right now.  Was he behind the problems she had the last couple of days?

Chapter 8
     
    It wasn’t long before Brooke hea rd another knock on her front door.  She glanced at the clock and realized she must have dozed off for a little while because it was daylight out now.
    Brooke let the sheriff and his men inside , and then she slid back down into the cushions on the sofa.  She had a hard time still controlling the crutches she knew she’d have to use for a few more days.
    “Ms. Laine, we won’t be long.  We’ll just take a quick look around and see if we can find something that might give us an idea of who is behind your break-in ,” the sheriff said.
    While she sat there, she heard Chase’s voice out back .  But her foot throbbed so much, she didn’t pay attention to what was being said.
    As she looked up, she saw Chase come inside and he carried a square of wood.  “I’ll put this up for you until you can get someone out to replace your window ,” Chase told Brooke.
    “Thank you, I’ll have to call someone in a little while,” Brooke said as she winced from the pain.
    Chase noticed that Brooke was in pain and said, “After I finish is, I’m taking you to the clinic.  That foot needs stitches and you need something for the pain.”
    Brooke started to argue that she was capable of going to the clinic on her own, and then she remembered, she’d need her foot to drive.  So she was at his mercy for a ride.
    “I won’t argue, I think you’re right.  Maybe when we’re in town, I can see someone about the back door.  I think I’d like a door with no window,” Brooke told Chase.
    “Well, it’s just what I thought, nothing out back to identify who was here last night. I’d get that door fixed, and since Chase here attached a lock to the breaker box already, I think you’ll be all right.  But call me if anything else happens,” the sheriff said, as he and his men left.
    Brooke stood up as the sheriff left.  “I guess I’ll put some clothes on so we can leave,” she said.
    Chase walked up to