CHAPTER TEN
Keri should have sensed something was wrong earlier.
But she was lost in thought on the drive back down the hill. All she could think about was how Cave had called her “Detective” right after she’d said he could call her Keri. She thought of how his eyes had gone cold, as if he’d intentionally squeezed the humanity out of them.
As she navigated the sharp twists and turns of the switchback road, she wondered if she’d ever connected with any part of him, if there’d ever been a chance that he might return Evie to her. It had seemed for a half moment that he might. But then it was gone. And she was certain she’d never get that moment back. She refused to think about what that meant for her daughter.
As she banked sharply left, Keri realized she was riding the gas way too hard a
