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Chapters (73)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgments
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  70. Epilogue
  71. Also by Mary Kay Andrews
  72. About the Author
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Jonah nodded at Brice. “It’s pretty late. If you want, I can take her home. I mean, we did have a date tonight.”

“You did?” Brice looked at Drue. “Really?”

“Really,” Drue replied. “But we’re not going home. We’re going after the guy who did this to me.”

“Huh?”

“It’s a long story, and I don’t have the energy to tell it twice,” she said. “You might as well hear it at the same time as Dad.”

Brice opened the back door of the Mercedes with a flourish. “Get in, son.”

As soon as everybody was in the car, Drue turned to her father and put out her hand. “I need your phone.”

He handed it over without comment. She gazed down at it and swore softly. “I don’t have Rae’s cell number. It’s on my phone, which I don’t have.”

Jonah snaked his hand over the headrests. “Here. I brought it with me.”

She turned around and flashed him a grateful smile, then scrolled through the recent calls on her phone until she found the detective’s number, grimacing when she noticed the time.

“She’s gonna kill me for calling her at one-thirty in the morning.”

Drue put the phone on loudspeaker. Rae Hernandez’s voice sounded distinctly pissy. “What?”

“Rae?” Drue said meekly. “I’m sorry, but this really is urgent. I’m just leaving the emergency room with my dad. Ben Fentress tried to kill me earlier tonight.”

“Wait. Who? Is this connected to the Jazmin Mayes thing?”

“Yes, it’s all about Jazmin. Ben works with me, at the law firm, on the Justice Line, but he also does some of the firm’s IT work. He somehow saw the security videos from the hotel and figured out what was going on. He tracked Neesa down and somehow, he put it all together. I think he must have gone to the hotel’s insurance company and shared what he knew, for a payoff.”

“Okay…” Hernandez’s voice trailed off. “You’ve lost me now.”

“Ben was my friend. I confided in him that I thought there was something shady about the way my dad’s law firm handled the case.” Her face flushed with embarrassment. “I even told him that at first, I thought my dad had taken a payoff.”

Drue shot her father an apologetic look. “Ben knew I was looking into Gulf Vista. I even called him Friday night to tell him I was going over there and needed a wingman. He didn’t answer his phone, so I left him a message. And then, after we got the goods on Neesa today, I mean yesterday, I called him again, to tell him about the arrest.”