“The county will put an immediate lien on his commercial building on Main Street,” Higgins answered without a pause.

By now everyone in the room could see why Daniel had made that video in the wooden tackle shed six years ago.

Daniel had found out about Dean’s timber debt and knew his brother was coming after the family accounts.

He made that recording so that if he disappeared on the lake, his family would know he never chose to walk away from us.

“Does my sister-in-law agree to these restitution terms?” Dean asked, speaking for the first time, still without looking my way.