I nodded. I hadn’t gone to the service, although I’d sent flowers and made a hefty donation to Jillian’s favorite charity. I also had Finn working on a way to quietly slip Jillian’s family enough money so they wouldn’t have to worry about anything for the rest of their lives. But I hadn’t thought it was right for me to show up at her funeral when I was the reason she’d been killed to start with. I knew the money wouldn’t make up for anything either, but it was all I could do to help those she’d left behind.

“It was a nice service, as far as those things go,” Owen said. “She was well liked. Lots of friends there, along with her brother.”

I nodded again. There was nothing I could say to make Owen feel better or ease my own guilt.

“The folks who were there were happy that McAllister had been arrested,” he continued. “Especially her brother. He was glad that Jillian was going to get the justice that she deserved, and so am I.”

“Are you upset that I didn’t kill McAllister?” I asked. “Because I thought about it. I thought long and hard about it.”

He shrugged. “I’d like to see the bastard suffer for everything he’s done to all of us. I’m okay with your decision.”

I hadn’t spoken to Owen, but I knew that Bria and Xavier had filled him in on everything McAllister had said, including the lawyer’s plan to implicate him in the robbery.

“But I didn’t come here to talk about McAllister,” he said.

“Then what did you come here to talk about?”

“Salina.”

“Oh. That.”

“Yeah. That.”

He stared at me, his eyes steady on mine. “I’m okay about Salina. I understand why you did what you did, Gin.”

Those were the words I’d hoped to hear, but that sad, dull, resigned tone still clouded his voice. The one that told me that he might understand, but he hadn’t really accepted it yet. Still, I wanted to hear what he had to say.

“What changed?”

Owen shrugged. “Nothing. Everything. I don’t know. I’ve spent the last few weeks thinking about Salina and everything that happened. Replaying it over and over again in my mind. I told you that at the museum.”

I nodded.

“But no matter what I think, I can’t see things ending any differently from how they did. I even hired a private investigator to dig into her past for me, everything that she’d done since she’d left Ashland. He gave me the report a few days ago. It wasn’t pretty. She was married several times. Did you know that?”

“Yes. Finn found out.”