Chapter 13 Kyle left the next morning, promising he’d be back in two weeks, “Come hell or high water.” While he was gone, Brax carried on as usual—or mostly as usual. He refrained from telling Kyle, during their almost nightly calls, about what happened during the stakeout he’d been on. The one that almost ended badly for him. One of the agency’s regular clients was a small insurance company. A client of theirs had been hit with a personal injury suit by a man who contended that one of the client’s fleet vehicles had rear-ended his car. He claimed, as a result, he’d suffered whiplash that left him with severe pain in his neck, shoulders, and lower back, to the point that he was unable to work. The insurance company wasn’t debating that the accident happened, but they didn’t believe the

