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not let your emotions cloud your judgment in this situation.”
    “Thank you, sir. I’d like to think I haven’t.”
    “As I would like to think the same about what I am doing.” He interrupted. He picked up a pen and began to write on a piece of paper on his desk for a good minute.
    “Sergeant Holder?” He said as he finished.
    “Yes sir?”
    “Two weeks. Not a single day longer. Do I make myself clear?”
    “Yes, Judge Bingham. Thank you sir.”
    “Don’t thank me just yet. If this week passes without any new leads in the case you can be certain I will not be so trusting of your abilities as an officer in the future.”
    “I understand.”
    “Good.” The judge said. With that, he handed Billy the paper he’d scribbled on moments earlier. “Take that to the clerk. You know what to do from this point.”
    All of a sudden, the judge stood from his chair and as he did, Billy gestured for Daniella and Jett to stand. Judge Bingham looked at them both just prior to leaving.
    “I wish you well…” he began. “This is an unusual circumstance to be sure. You owe a great debt to Officer Holder. If not for him, I can promise you’d be in the midst of an awful situation.”
    “Thank you, Judge.” Jett replied.
    ***
    In spite of the crazy events happening elsewhere in her life, Daniella did still have a job. Not only that, the week coming up was the biggest yet for her as the juvenile diabetes fundraising event would at last take place.
    The good news was that Daniella didn ’t need divine intervention to pull it off after all. Everything came together at the last minute so unless the banquet hall burned down, she wouldn’t have anything to worry about with it. On the other hand, the bad news she was that she didn’t have a date.
    In many ways, that was much worse …
    Under no circumstances could she bring Jett. His face was all over the news while the manhunt was going on in Pine Hill. She didn ’t want to take the chance he might be recognized and put her in the awkward position of having to introduce her date… an alleged murderer.
    Luckily for Daniella, Candi and Victoria paid about as much attention to the news as Daniella did to football games which was zero. In spite of that, there would be people at the event who might recognize Jett. With any luck, enough time passed that he might not be spotted right away but the possibility still existed.
    On the other hand, that horrible outcome still seemed like it might be preferable to the grilling she’d receive from Candi and Victoria about who was coming with her. Because once they learned the answer was nobody , there was little doubt about the pressure they’d put on her to let them fix her up. So, as much as she hated to do it, Daniella figured she’d have to lie and deal with whatever the consequences might be.
    As luck would have it, the two of them were out of the office for most of the morning which at least gave Daniella a chance to organize her thoughts. But the reprieve was short lived because once they arrived at work after lunch the dreaded discussion began at last.
    Candi sidled up to Daniella ’s desk. “So, what did you do all weekend?” She gestured towards Victoria and continued, “We sent you a bunch of texts on Saturday night. What’s the deal? Were you with someone?”
    “Yeah,” Victoria chimed in. “Who is it?”
    “No one,” Daniella began. “I’m sorry I didn’t reply to you guys. I was busy… family stuff.”
    “Uh huh,” Candi replied as she sat on the corner of Daniella’s desk. “Well, if you don’t want to tell us, that’s fine.”
    Without looking up from her desk, Daniella replied, “There’s nothing to tell, really.”
    Victoria said nothing as she made her way around to the other side of Daniella ’s desk. She stopped, stood near Daniella, and peered down at her.
    “What?” Daniella said as she looked upwards.
    “Well? Are you going to make me ask or are you going to just tell us?”
    “Tell you