Addie shook her head. “No. I just want to go.”
Understanding darkened his eyes. He looked like he wanted her out of here as much as she did.
As they stepped out of the office, she studied the broken window. “I’m sorry I dragged it all in here.”
“I’m not. You breaking that window alerted us that you were here. You saved yourself.”
“Thank God for the silent alarm.”
“Thank God foryou.” He kissed the top of her head and they stepped outside.
When a female deputy walked out of the forest with Cass beside her in handcuffs, Addie stopped.
Then Cass met her gaze, and the other woman’s eyes flared in anger. “You’re still here?” She turned to the deputy. “She killed Rhett! Why isn’tshein cuffs?”
Noah took a step toward her, but Addie held him back. “No. I need to say something to her.”
“Are you sure?”
She nodded before crossing the lot.
“You’re a murderer!” Cass spat.
“I didn’t kill Rhett,” she said carefully, when she reached her.
“Youdid. Toby told me everything.”
“He lied to you. Just like he lied to everyone else.Hekilled Rhett because Rhett became a liability after he paid him to tamper with the rock-climbing gear, the day Buck fell. He also paid Rhett to steal my house key.”
Cass paled before vigorously shaking her head. “No. That’s not true. Toby told me—”
“Toby only cared about getting his hands on Jules’s money. After killing me, he planned to killyou, then frame you for my murder.”
Cass blinked, the last scrap of color leaving her face.
“Come on.” The deputy pulled her away.
The second Addie was in Noah’s truck, she closed her eyes and leaned her head back.
“You’re safe to sleep,” he said quietly as he started the engine. “I’ve got you.”
She turned to look at him, a soft smile curving her lips. She loved him. An entire-body, didn’t-know-what-she’d-do-without-him kind of love.
She reached over and placed a palm on his knee. “I know you do.”
He’d just pulled onto the road when she saw the phone in the middle compartment…her phone.
“That’s how I knew Cass had you,” Noah told her.
Addie lifted her cell to see a missed call from her parents. They couldn’t know what had happened today. They would havejust been checking in. But the second she told them, they would lose their minds.
That was a call that could wait until tomorrow.
She was about to set the phone back down when a text came through from Jules.
Jules: Addie, I need to know if you’re okay. Please tell me you’re safe.
She stared at the text for an entire minute, not sure how to respond. There was so much that needed to be discussed.
