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“What’s that?”
“We run. Together.”
She’s already shaking her head. “Are you listening to yourself? We’re not even together—”
“We’re together.”
“—and you want to take me, a presumed felon, away to…what? Live off grid somewhere outside of Cyrus’s reach? Outside of the law? The fucking law, rookie? We’d be looking over our shoulders for the rest of our lives. I’m not doing that. Not to you. Not to my mom. And not to yours.”
The rest of our lives.Even if she’s not technically divorced from Kordin, even if she’s being hunted by the FBI, I’d still want Lex.
But she’s right. She doesn’t deserve that kind of life and neither do our families. Running from Cyrus is one thing. He’s the devil of Fox Hollow, not the entire world. But the police… They’re everywhere.
I’ve wanted to get my family out of here for years. I have to figure out a way to do it without implicating them in the process.
If only there was a fucking accomplice.
What if…there was?
It’s not like anybody would come forward and say there wasn’t. Kordin will be too busy denying every aspect of his involvement to disprove who helped him.
“Cyrus’s reach doesn’t extend as far as he makes it seem,” I assure Lex. “As for Kordin…if he turns you in, the account he’s funneling money into gets seized. He’s not going to risk that, no matter how pissed he gets that you’re not around anymore. The only way he’s rolling over on you is if he gets caught and is forced to in order to save his own ass.”
“Which could happen at any time.”
Yes, it could, especially with Kordin’s dumbass brother involved.
“Not if there isn’t evidence tying you to the embezzlement. We have to get rid of all traces of wrongdoing with your name attached before we leave.”
Lex is quiet for a minute, and I think she’s going to fight me about leaving again. Instead she points at the coffee table, and asks, “How many other copies did you make?”
She’s considering it.
She’s considering leaving. With me.
The numbness in my hands spreads to the rest of my body as I make myself continue on. “That’s the only one.”
“So it’s the two flash drives, Kaisin’s email records, and…”
“The invoices themselves. I can get those,” I say before she has a chance.
“That’sifKaisin still has them.”
“If he does, I’ll find them.” And if I can’t, I’ll make them.
“What about Kaisin?”
“He won’t know I’m there.”
“No, but he’ll know about the work orders.”
That’s what I’m banking on.
“Like you said, it’d just be his word.”
“We’ll need money. A lot of it. More than either of us has.”
There’s only one person I can think of with that kind of cash on hand, and lucky for us, I have the code to his safe. It’s—
