steely-eyed reporter didn’t back down. “Judge, a source tells me evidence at the scene suggests she might be involved. Is the family standing by her?”
His smile turned cutting. “The St. Croixs stand by justice, Evy, pure and simple. There’ll be an investigation—”
The sound of a loud knock overrode the rest of the judge’s rant. Beth swung toward the door, but didn’t move. No one knew she was here. She’d driven around for over an hour last night before losing the last of the journalists following her. She’d checked in under an assumed name. She’d paid in cash.
Another knock, this one more forceful. “Room service.”
Beth edged closer to the door, again tightening the sash of the bulky white robe provided by the hotel. All her clothes remained at the house that had never quite been a home, but was now a crime scene.
Through the peephole, she saw nothing, not even light, and her heart started to pound even harder.
“I didn’t order room service,” she said, keeping her eye to the opening.
“Damn it, Bethany, let me in.”
Her hands fell away from the door, as though the man outside had infused the cool wood with the power to burn her palms.
Dylan.
Her heart slowed and thrummed, then started to hammer. Swearing softly, she looked more closely. Clearly he hadn’t slept much, but not even fatigue interfered with Dylan St. Croix. It enhanced. He stood there in an olive button-down and black jeans, a knapsack over his shoulder, a silver tray on one of his hands. His dark hair was mussed, his deep-set eyes deceptively benign. Whiskers shadowed his jaw.
Deep inside, the icy wall started to fissure, and her pulse kicked up. Resentment came next, alarm, because therein lay the danger.
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