Chapter 0345

I didn’t sleep well last night, and it shows in the way I look this morning. I am exhausted, both mentally and physically. Rowan and I haven’t slept in the same bed since the night of our date. For the first time since then, I’d been tempted to invite him after we came home from the police station.

I walk slowly to the kitchen. It was still early, and I was probably the only one that was awake. I needed coffee ASAP because I had to take Gunner back. Calvin said he would be busy and might not be able to pick him up, so I offered to drop him off.

Yawning, I cross the threshold to the kitchen but stop dead in my tracks. Rowan was seated at the kitchen island with a steaming cup.

He turns when he hears me, and our eyes clash.

“You couldn’t sleep?” he asks, standing up.

I just nod my head as I watch him open the cupboard to get another cup. Without my asking, he pours me coffee from the pot.

was the only one awake,” I mutter as I take

“Nope”

incriminating. There was no way to prove otherwise. Brian told us that they would begin

about that bothered me. I couldn’t place it. It was in the

it about Emma?” Rowan asks, pulling me from my

clear my head with the caffeine. “Yes.

head. “Fuck. It’s so unbelievable. I never thought she would go that far, but thinking about it now, maybe I just didn’t know her as well as

and right now, I know he’s thinking of ways

nothing left. I know this because I was his enemy once, and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. So many times I thought of just packing and running away because

indeed Emma is guilty, I feel sorry for her because what she went through in prison would be nothing but a taste. It will seem like a fairytale compared

she did it,” I murmured, staring at the steaming black liquid

gaze shows surprise. “What? Brian showed

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