Partial plate.
Enough.
Blaze’s voice echoed in my head.
Registered to the Reynolds family.
I leaned back slowly in the chair and dragged a hand across my jaw.
“Alright,” I muttered. “Let’s see what you’re hiding.”
The Ranger office stayed dark except for the glow from the monitor while I dug through records.
Ownership transfers.
Family connections.
Registration history.
Piece by piece, the puzzle started shifting into place.
Then—
there it was.
Daniel Reynolds.
I went still.
Same last name.
Same family.
But not Cathy’s father.
Not her brother.
I clicked deeper into the family tree.
Brother-in-law.
A slow, humorless laugh left me.
“Of course.”
I kept scrolling.
Current position:
Sheriff — Gable Ridge County.
My jaw tightened hard.
Suddenly the entire case snapped into focus.
The missing footage.
The wiped logs.