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Chapters (61)
  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Dedication
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
  15. Eleven
  16. Twelve
  17. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  18. Thirteen
  19. Fourteen
  20. Fifteen
  21. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  22. Sixteen
  23. Seventeen
  24. Eighteen
  25. Nineteen
  26. Twenty
  27. Twenty-One
  28. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  29. Twenty-Two
  30. Twenty-Three
  31. Twenty-Four
  32. Twenty-Five
  33. Twenty-Six
  34. Twenty-Seven
  35. Twenty-Eight
  36. Twenty-Nine
  37. Thirty
  38. Thirty-One
  39. Thirty-Two
  40. Thirty-Three
  41. Thirty-Four
  42. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  43. Thirty-Five
  44. Thirty-Six
  45. Thirty-Seven
  46. Thirty-Eight
  47. From the Journal of Candace Swain
  48. Thirty-Nine
  49. Forty
  50. Forty-One
  51. Forty-Two
  52. Forty-Three
  53. Forty-Four
  54. Forty-Five
  55. Forty-Six
  56. Forty-Seven
  57. Letter Found in the Journal of Candace Swain
  58. Forty-Eight
  59. Acknowledgments
  60. Booklist
  61. Excerpt

She rubbed her eyes and tried to figure a way out of this mess.

Maybe she was overthinking it.

She continued reading through his emails. They were meeting at the station today at four. That was in ten minutes.

Only one other email jumped out at her. It was from Detective Hernandez.

I asked Regan Merritt to sit in on the meeting since she found the journal; CCSD put a hospitalized student in protective custody as a possible witness. Student is in coma. Prognosis 50/50.

Journal? What journal? Taylor said she had destroyed Candace’s journal... Had she lied? Did she have it? Had she given it to Lucas Vega? To Regan Merritt?

And how did Regan know that Nicole was the caller about the truck? Dammit, Nicole should have died. If she regained consciousness, she could implicate Rachel.

Rachel could feel the noose tightening around her neck. Nicole could destroy her. She should have died! If she’d died, none of this would be happening... Damn damn damn! How could she have survived that dosage?

All thoughts of creating problems for Steven vanished. She had more important things to address. Rachel left the cop’s house, drove directly to her condo.

She recognized when her time was up. If Nicole survived, Rachel wouldn’t be able to mitigate the damage.

For now? She had enough time to execute her backup plan. Escape. Disappear and rebuild.

She wanted to scream. She had everything she wanted right here! She didn’t want to leave, but she had no choice.

Survival would always win.

Rachel packed two suitcases and put them in her Jeep. She grabbed her emergency fund: five thousand dollars. She’d close her account on Monday once she knew where she was going; she had another six thousand in her savings. Not a lot of money, but for now it would be sufficient.

She had places she could go for a while. Friends across the country she could stay with.

Rachel also still had access to the university lab. She needed a few things. She might be forced to leave town and disappear, but dammit, she was going to punish the little asshole who’d started this disaster.

You ruined my life, Lucas Vega.

I am going to kill you.

Forty-Four

The meeting at the station went as well as Regan could expect, and she was happy that they included her so she could share her perspective. Brian Hernandez seemed like a solid detective, and Steven Young willingly handed over all his notes and evidence and answered questions. She had suggested that Lucas come down, but Brian said he’d reach out to Lucas if he needed more information.

Steven was professional but clearly upset that his girlfriend was a murder suspect. He didn’t question the journal, however. On the advice of the DA, they opened the letter to the Overton family and made a copy.