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“You did it, too.”
“Only because Sasha said you’d gone inside. I did it for you, jackass. And instead of staying safe, you ran right back into the flames.”
“Yeah, I did. There wasn’t time to wait, and losing those dogs would’ve crushed Anna. I wasn’t going to let that happen. That’s what friends do, Ash.”
“You’re not my friend anymore, man. You’re just someone I used to know.”
Donovan shook his head in disbelief, and the motion nearly made him throw up. He swallowed hard, ordering his stomach to stay put. “You know, for a cop, you’re a judgmental asshole.”
“And you’re just an asshole.”
“Fuck you.”
“Excuse me?”
“You heard me.”
Ash took a step forward, his fists clenched. “You’ve got a lot of nerve talking to me like that, considering everything you’ve done.”
“And what exactly have I done?” Donovan shot back. He was so fucking tired of being blamed for everything that went wrong in this town.
“You know damn well,” Ash snarled.
“Go on. Say it. You think I killed her. You think I killed Darcy.”
“I don’t think. I know somebody killed her because we just found her body burned to a fucking crisp, and I know you were the last person to see her alive.”
“Wait.” The air left Donovan’s lungs like he’d been punched. “You found her?”
“We won’t know for sure until the DNA comes back, but yes. We think so.”
He leaned back against his pillow and exhaled hard. It might have been a sob, but he wasn’t going to own up to it in front of Ash.
They’d found Darcy.
After all these years…
Fuck. This was going to get bad. “I never should’ve come back to this goddamn town.”
“No,” Ash said flatly. “You shouldn’t have, but you did, and now I suggest you don’t try to leave.”
If he were smart, he would leave before the inevitable arrest happened. But if he left, he’d never see Sasha again.
“I’m not going anywhere.” Why should he? This was his home, and he’d done nothing wrong.
“Good,” Ash said and turned to the door. “Because we’ll be talking again real soon.”
part two
burn
When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.
Beryl Bainbridge
episode 4: the crime scene
Hey there, welcome back to Cold Truth, the true-crime podcast where we dive deep into cold cases to uncover the truth. I'm your host, Alexis Summers, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about a potential crime scene. Specifically, a spot in the woods near Hidden Beach where her shoe was found, and blood was splattered on a tree trunk.
