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Finn clenched his jaw.
Kross was a problem for another day.
20
“You called the cops on me! Really, Carrie?” Jewel shook her head.
Carrie looked at her with no remorse. “What did you expect us to do? You disappeared after leaving Sky’s wedding with some random guy we’d never met”—she held a hand up to Finn—“no offense.”
“None taken,” he said, lips firm and legs a shoulder-width apart as he stood backlit by the glass door with his hands on his hips.
Jewel shot him an exasperated look.
Finn wisely backed away, an amused smile flirting with his lips. “I’ll just wait in the car.”
Jo kept quiet until Finn had left. When the door banged shut behind him, she turned imploring brown eyes her way. “You’ve got to see things from our perspective. We were so worried about you. We called your phone all night and you didn’t pick up. Then when we went to your house early this morning, we found your door unlocked, clothes everywhere and your phone broken on the ground.”
“So your next rational thought was you should print a thousand copies of my face and post them online and around town?” Jewel crunched her fingers into the stacks of papers she’d found when Finn took her to Sweet Treats five minutes ago.
“No.” Carrie rolled her eyes. “We went to the police.”
“But they said that you were an adult and we couldn’t report you missing until forty eight hours had passed,” Jo said, slinging her long, curly hair over her shoulder.
Carrie grumbled, “The idiots. I swore that if something happened to you, I’d burn the whole place down.”
“She almost got us arrested.” Jo snorted.
“I was fine. You didn’t have to worry.”
Carrie frowned, brown eyes sharp. “We didn’t know that.”
“We kept imagining the worst,” Jo whispered, looking genuinely terrified. “We couldn’t even sleep. We had the guys going around Belize looking for signs of Finn’s car. I was so scared you’d died or something.”
The fight left her body when she saw tears glistening in Jo’s eyes. “You’re right. I’m sorry I didn’t find a way to contact you and let you know I was okay.”
Carrie studied her, plump lips pursed and arms folded across her ample chest.
Jewel backed away. “Why are you staring at me like that?”
“You seem different.”
“Me?”
She nodded. “Yeah.”
Carrie rubbed her chin. “You’re… snappy.”
“Snappy?”
“You are talking a lot more now,” Jo mused. “And loudly. Which is unlike you. Did something happen?”
Yes. A psychopath is hunting me down and I’m inches away from losing my mind over a hot stranger who’s gotten way too close to me way too fast.
“No.”
“Where were you last night?” Carrie folded her arms over her chest.
Jo stepped forward. “Who trashed your place?”
