“You know why. If it were you and Kit Bryant. How would you handle it, Tinsley?” I asked. He had a crush on a cybercrime detective that he had once been a partner with.
He rolled his eyes and clenched his jaw. “I wouldn’t act on it. Which is why we’re not together now.”
I sniffed. “Well, I guess we all got decisions to make, don’t we?”
The elevator doors opened, and despite the tension that had built on the elevator, they all closed in rank around me. They didn’t break until we reached my car.
“I want to see you when you get a chance,” Lieutenant Edwards declared.
I nodded and hopped in my car. I waited until after I was far enough away from the courtroom to power my phone on. Ineeded to speak to Sevyn and make sure she was okay. She had probably seen the news and had dozens of questions.
Her phone went straight to voicemail when I dialed it back to back. I noticed that I had several missed calls from my sister and a voicemail urging me to call her right away. My stomach knotted, because I knew she and Sevyn were supposed to have lunch today. With Sevyn not answering my calls, and Amani calling me numerous times, I worried something had happened.
“Hey, Amani. Everything okay?”
“Yes and no.”
“The hell, Amani?”
“She’s safe, but she’s not okay.”
“She saw the news.”
“Yes.”
I smacked my hand against the steering wheel as I sat at the light. My horn blew, and the driver in front of me looked in their rearview mirror. I held my hand up in apology.
“I was going to tell her about that today, but then the prosecution called me in this morning.”
“Yes. She was upset to find out those details the way that she did, but that’s not the major problem.”
“What do you mean?”
“She’s reclaiming some other memories, Deuce, including the night of the accident.You should have told her. You hurt her real bad, and she deserves better.”
“What does she know?” I demanded through clenched teeth.
“That you weren’t called to the accident. She believes you were the cause of it.”
My stomach clenched in my chest, and I floored the accelerator to hurry home. “I fucked up by not telling her, you’re right. Is she still home? Please tell me she is.”
“She is.”
“Where are you?”
“I’m waiting for you to show up before I leave, because if I leave now, she won’t be here when you get here.”
“Did she say what all she remembered?”
“Just that you were the person who caused the accident that night. She believes that the only reason you’re still in her life is out of fear of what she might recall.”
“That’s not true.”
“I tried to talk reason into her and explain that she just needed to give you the opportunity to explain. She doesn’t want to talk.”
“I’ll be there shortly.”
“Okay, but Deuce?”
