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talking in half sentences any second now.
    Not that anything about the man intimidated Jonas. He’d dealt with the feds—heck, he’d been one in his last job and hadn’t been impressed. “I don’t think so.”
    “Now.” The guy acted as if issuing an order would work.
    “And you are?” Rich asked.
    “Paul Eckert.” Right on cue, the guy held up his hand then dipped his fingers into his jacket pocket and pulled out a shiny badge. “FBI.”
    “How did you get in here?” Jonas refused to lower his weapon. “There are two officers out there with specific instructions not to let anyone back here.”
    “I’m afraid that’s my fault. I brought Agent Eckert.” Walt Roberts stepped inside the increasingly small space.
    “What are you doing here?” Jonas shook his head. He hadn’t expected the Bartholomew County sheriff to show up. Then again, Walt had a way of finding the action and being right in the middle of it. Being sixty with a bum leg did not slow him down all that much.
    He’d served in the navy with Jonas’s dad decades earlier. The men had a bond that extended to Jonas. Walt’s personal reference and not-so-subtle insistence that Jonas relocate to Oregon landed him his current deputy position. He owed Walt for many things. A steady paycheck was only one on the impressive list.
    “It’s getting pretty crowded in here,” Courtney said, as she pushed Jonas aside and looked around her bed.
    He had to chuckle at her dry statement. “No kidding.”
    “Would one or more of you consider putting the weapons away? I’ve seen enough gunplay for one day.” She tugged on Jonas’s arm as she said it.
    Not being one for surprises, he preferred to keep the gun ready, but in deference to the trembling in her palm, he lowered it. He tried to take his anger level down at the same time.
    “What’s going on?” Jonas asked.
    “When word went out that you were in the hospital and most of your squad was either here checking on you or at the crime scene, I got the call to step in. I was on my way over to check on you when Agent Eckert’s office made contact.” Walt turned to their suited guest. “So, I brought him along. He pretty much insisted on it.”
    “I still don’t understand what’s happening or why the FBI is here,” Courtney said.
    Eckert stared at her. “It’s a serious law-enforcement issue.”
    Tension exploded in the room. Jonas couldn’t breathe without choking on it. And he worried the woman next to him was the cause of it all. “Anything you want to tell me?”
    Her entire face fell. Mouth, eyes, everything pulled flat. “I didn’t do anything wrong.”
    “You say that a lot.” He turned to the agent. “Eckert?”
    “I’d have to disagree with her assessment.”
    Of course he did. Jonas wondered if this day would ever end. “And why is that?”
    “She’s under arrest.”

Chapter Five
    Courtney’s painkiller wore off with a hard smack. “What?”
    She’d never done anything to attract the attention of the police. If she went the rest of her days without seeing or hearing about another cop, she’d be fine. History taught her to be wary and keep her distance. The whole “run to a policeman if you’re in trouble” motto turned her blood icy cold.
    Her glance moved to Jonas. Tall, dark, handsome and deadly sarcastic. He had everything she found attractive in a guy…except the badge. She had no choice but to believe in him right now, but at the first opportunity she’d be gone.
    Jonas lowered his gun as he stared down the agent. “Where is it?”
    The other man’s glare telegraphed how little he appreciated being dressed down by a small-town cop. “Excuse me?”
    “I want to see the paper.”
    She had no idea what Jonas was talking about, but the agent didn’t blink. Courtney wrote the whole scene off as cop talk, as she scanned the cubicle for an obvious escape route.
    Eckert edged closer to the end of the bed. “I need to talk with Ms. Allen alone.”
    Jonas shook