Chapter Eighteen
I froze. I thought Justine had been saying that Nate’s alibi was a lie. But she’d been really warning me about Samson. I thought she’d been threatening me, but maybe Justine had been obliquely warning me away from Olivia.
Olivia said with a sweet, sad smile, “Justine is trying to look out for me, even though she doesn’t approve of me. She said family had to stick together. I know she won’t say anything, but I don’t know the same about you. In fact, Justine called me a few minutes ago and told me you’d encouraged her to go to the police with the information. I had to hurry over just as fast as I could.”
I stared at her for a moment, my mind racing. I needed to keep Olivia talking if I had any hope at all of getting out of this situation. “You must miss Cornelius very muc
