I brush away the tear on her face. “If I didn’t have my head so far up my ass, I would have told you I loved you a long time ago.” I smile at her when she smiles and then looks down. “So I am the one to blame.”

I put my arm around her shoulder and pull her to me, kissing her head. Jacob gets in the truck, and we head over to the truck. “There it is.” Savannah points at the silver truck. “That’s Chase’s truck.” Jacob pulls over and parks in front of it. I open the door and wait for Jacob to go ahead of us.

“Don’t touch anything,” he says, putting on a pair of gloves. He opens the driver’s door, and it looks normal. There is no mess anywhere. It’s a clean truck. Jacob leans in and presses the button of the trunk, and we walk around. When he lifts the lid, we all gasp.

“Holy shit.” I look down and see that there are gasolines cans, sticks of dynamite, and binoculars.

I’m about to lean in and move things when Jacob’s phone rings. “Yeah,” he says and then looks over at us. “Okay, we can be there in ten.” He closes the phone. “Chase wants to talk, but he will only do it with Savannah there.”

“Fuck, no!” I roar out when she says, “Let’s go.”

“You are not going in there,” I say, and it’s her now who puts her hand on my cheek.

“He has the answers to all of our questions,” she says quietly. “I need to know why.”

“She is not going in there without me.” I look over at Jacob who just nods.

We get to the station, and I walk in holding Savannah’s hand. Grady is there waiting for us. “He is waiting for you guys. He has quite a story for you.” I follow Jacob into the room where Chase sits behind a brown table with his hands cuffed in front of him.

He looks up and gone is the cocky guy who got arrested and in his place is a guy who knows his time is up. “Good,” he says. “The gang is all here.”

Jacob sits down in front of him on the chair. “Well,” Jacob says. “We’re all here. What did you want to say?”

“I suggest you sit down because this is going to be a long one,” he says, looking over at us, and neither of us move. “Suit yourself. I guess I’m going to start at the beginning,” he starts. “Before I say anything, I only did this for you,” he says to Savannah.

“For me?” She points at her chest. “How is any of this for me?”

“When I first stepped into town and took one look at you, I knew that you were perfect for me,”