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Honestly, I’m not sure if I haven’t lost my mind.

My phone is upstairs, and the only reason I have my credit card in my bra is because old habits die hard. I just always do if I don’t have a purse with me.

So I have money, and I can get a cab home, pack a bag, and then go to the one place I felt truly happy.

There I can think.

There I can work out what the hell I am going to do with my life.

Somewhere no one will think of finding me.

Not even him.

The one man who will know if he truly loves me.

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

AIDAN

“I’m almost too scaredto ask how you found him?” Detective White says, as the police officers put handcuffs on Johnny Trevis.

He’s very quiet and partly that’s because he’s having trouble speaking.

Oops.

“I’ll get my team to send you everything we have on him.” I say, my hands in my pants pocket. “He’s married to, um, a friend of mine. Obviously not a legit marriage—”

“Isk wehgit you askhwhole.” Trevis tries to say.

I lift my brow.

The detective nods his head at his team, and they drag him away. Then he turns back to me. “We’ll need to speak to her.”

First, I need to tell Briar what’s happened. I’m surprised she hasn’t come running down here yet, but I figure she’s in the bathroom or distracted.

One of my team members might be keeping her away from the action and I appreciate that they have. But it has to be me who tells her what’s happened. I’m not letting anyone else do it.

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