I enter the Infinity Ridge Police Station and walk to the desk.
No one is here, which isn’t surprising. We have, like, four police officers, and I’m going to assume, since we probably arrest someone once a quarter, it’s taking all four to book Tristan.
Honestly, most of the police work here is based on traffic stops or horses getting loose. It’s not all that exciting here.
“Hello?” I call out, but after a minute, no one has answered.
There’s a bell on the end of the counter, so I go there, and the metallictingsounds.
I wait.
Nothing.
All right. Maybe it’s annoyance that will get them to respond. So I ring the bell again.
And again.
And again.
To the point that I’m now pissing myself off, but finally it works.
“All right, all right,” Jimmy says as he walks around the front desk. “Oh, Lark. Are you here about the arrest?”
“Yes, I’m here because you’re making a mistake.”
His eyes widen. “I’m sorry, what?”
“He didn’t do it.”
Jimmy looks mildly confused. “Okay…but…we have video evidence.”
“Of him releasing the horses?” I ask.
“Well, no, but of him leaving the area.”
“That doesn’t prove anything.”
“It proves he was on the property around the time there was damage,” he replies.
Sure, that’s true, but…I know I didn’t do it.
Jimmy runs his hand through his hair. “Look, the last thing in the world I want is to arrest my best friend. However, he confessed.”
My jaw falls slack. “He did what now?”
No, this can’t be true. Tristan has never lied to me, and he said repeatedly it wasn’t him.
“I guessconfessedis the wrong word, since the asshole won’t say anything other than I need to do what I need to do. That one day I’ll find the truth. And he’s not saying anything more.”
None of that makes sense. Why wouldn’t he just tell Jimmy why he was on the property?
Then it hits me.
He’s not going to tell Jimmy that it was because he was bringing me home after we spent the night at the ridge. That would go against everything we promised each other.
“Jimmy, you have to drop the charges,” I say.
“Funny that you say that when your brothers were adamant that we lock him up.”
