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A laugh escapes me. “Pretty loaded question at this point, Fox. In the last few days, I’ve been shot at, I jumped off a roof, crashed through windows, and I… I drove ten hours thinking you were going to die in the seat next to me.”
“I’m sorry, Dani.” His hands fidget together. “I never wanted this for you.”
“I can’t stop thinking about that gun in my hand.” His brow furrows in confusion. “Mercer came at me and... I could have shot him, but I didn’t. I couldn’t. I tried, but… I couldn’t be like you.”
“Good,” he says.
“Fox, if I had, this wouldn’t have happened to you.”
“And if I had killed him six months ago when I had the chance, this wouldn’t have happened to you.” He shakes his head. “You can’t live like that, Dani. Don’t regret what you should have done. Look forward at what you will do to fix it.”
“How are we supposed to fix this, Fox?”
He falls silent and sits back in his chair. I don’t expect him to have an answer right now. He’s still wounded, still healing.
His eyes shift and he turns around to glance back into the dining room. “Where are my clothes?”
“Ruined.”
“The flash drive was in my pocket. Do you have it?”
I pull it from my own pocket. “It fell out while I was… taking your pants off.” I pass it to him. He exhales the panic from his chest as he turns it over his fingers. “Did Boxcar manage to decrypt it?”
“Yes.”
“What are we going to do with it?”
Fox keeps his head down. “Well, we can’t plug it in here. They’ll trace it. It’s how they found us at the hotel.”
I wait for him to offer a second option, but he just stares at it. “Fox?”
“I’ll take it into town and give it the local police. They’ll call in the FBI and they’ll take it from there.”
“And then… you’ll come back here?”
He squeezes it in his palm. “Dani, I’m in this file.”
I stare at him, trying to decide if that’s good or bad. “Okay…” He stands up from the chair. “Fox, where are you going?”
“I need you to stay here.”
He walks out of the living room toward the front door.
“Fox—” He doesn’t slow down. “Fox!” I follow him into the entryway, moving as fast as I can to catch up with him. “Fox, what are you doing?”
“I’m going to turn my myself in and hand over the file.”
“Wait, right now?”
“Stay with Mrs. Clark,” he says. “She’s old but she’s spry.”
I search his eyes. “You can’t do this.”
“Stay here, Dani.”
My heart pumps wild blood through my veins as he turns around and walks outside. I shake with horrible anticipation like I’m standing on a vibrating train track.
“Fox…” My voice cuts off at a whisper.
I can’t let him leave me.
Not again.
