“I never heard that. The cops never said anything.”
“They didn’t know.” Deputy Doofus sneered at her like he thought she was stupid.
She felt pretty stupid.
Why hadn’t she considered that Lee/Liam had something to do with her father’s death?
“They never reported it to the cops?” she asked.
“They were trying to blackmail me,” Lee/Liam said. “They wanted money. A lot of it. I had to find out who it was and take them out. While keeping a low profile. By the time I did that you had disappeared. I thought you were a low risk anyway. You were too weak and timid and stupid to put anything together.”
He wasn’t wrong that she never would have pieced this all together if she hadn’t come to Haven.
“But there was a suicide note,” she whispered.
“I planted it. That was a nightmare. Thankfully, I had a key and all the alarm codes.”
Wow. This was almost too much. Her mind couldn’t take much more.
“You didn’t know I was here? In Haven?” she asked.
“No. When Ravina talked about you, she just called you ‘the bitch’. I had no idea until she told me that ‘the bitch’ was asking about Lee Newsome that it was.”
She turned to Deputy Doofus. “But you saw me when you came to my house. Twice.”
“I didn’t meet Lee until recently,” Deputy Doofus told her. “Ravina recruited me. We went to college together and she knew I was a cop. She wanted me here to direct any attention from the cops away from her aunt’s place. I only met Liam a few days ago so I had no idea that the two of you knew each other.”
“I can’t believe my father was working with you. That he had no problems with drugs being made and distributed under his nose. Especially after my mother overdosed.”
Lee/Liam snorted. “You don’t think he fed her those drugs?”
She shook her head. “No. No, he wouldn’t have.”
“He boasted to me about it,” Lee/Liam said smugly.
“Oh my God.”
She bent over and threw up again.
“Ew. That’s disgusting,” Deputy Doofus said. “Can we get rid of her now?”
“Why . . . why kidnap me when I didn’t know any of this,” she said, gasping for air.
Had her father murdered her mother? But why?
“If you’d just disappeared and remained quiet, I probably would have let you be,” Lee/Liam said to her. “But now you feel like a loose end. Also, I’m fucking angry. At you. At your father. At her.” He glanced down at Ravina. “Stupid, incompetent bitch. “
She glanced at Ravina and swallowed. “She loved you.”
“She loved my money. But one of the main reasons we needed to have a chat is because of those men of yours. Two men? Didn’t think the ice princess had it in her. How much do they know?”
Oh God.
“I don't . . . I don't know.” She knew what was going to happen once she told them what they knew.
She’d be as dead as Ravina.
She couldn’t die. Not when she’d just found the guys.
