Conflicting Evidence by Lena Diaz

Author:Lena Diaz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-11-15T15:42:20+00:00

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COLIN BRACED HIS hands behind him on the hood of his truck, using every ounce of his willpower to keep from chasing after Peyton as she drove away for the second time that day. He ached to take her in his arms, beg her not to leave. But it wouldn’t be fair to her. She wanted time to think, whatever that meant. And he had to give it to her. But that didn’t make it easy. As the sun began to set, he wondered if it was also setting on the last remaining hopes that the two of them could ever escape the echoes of their past.

His phone buzzed in his pocket. When he saw who was calling, he climbed in his truck and shut the door. “Hey, Duncan. Tell me you found him. I’m ready for this to be over.”

“Did you find her?”

He’d just started the engine, but hesitated at the urgency in his brother’s voice. “I did. We talked. She’s on her way to Memphis now. Why?”

“She was alone? No one could have been hiding in her car?”

He fisted his hand on the steering wheel, disappointment slamming through him at his brother’s question. “You’re telling me Brian got away? Don’t worry about Peyton. I was standing by her back window while we were talking. No one could have hidden inside. I can’t believe he escaped again. That guy is slipperier than a water moccasin and twice as deadly.”

“You need to get back here, to the high school.”

Duncan’s voice was hoarse. Colin couldn’t remember the last time he’d sounded so shaken.

“What’s going on?”

“The police are pretty sure they found the other three escapees, a mile east of the school in a heavily wooded area.”

“Pretty sure? What does that mean?” Colin checked his mirrors, then turned around in the middle of the highway and headed toward the school.

“They were tied to the base of an oak tree. Someone had poured some kind of accelerant on them and lit them on fire. They’re unrecognizable. The only reason the cops think it’s them is because someone carved initials into the tree facing them—DP, VS, TK—Damon Patterson, Vincent Snyder, Tyler King.” He let out a shuddering breath. “Colin, the police found them because they heard their screams.”

“For the love of...” Colin let out a shaky breath of his own, his stomach roiling at the images his brother’s words conjured in his mind. He flexed his hand on the steering wheel, the spiderweb of burn scars standing out in stark relief against his tan. “Brian’s escalated from setting buildings on fire without worrying whether someone might be inside to deliberately setting people on fire. Honestly, I never imagined he was capable of something that heinous. Kind of makes me glad Peyton left. I don’t even want her in the same state as her psychotic sibling.”

“Psychotic sounds about right, someone out of touch with the normal world, for sure. But it gets worse. Remember I told you that after I chased Brian into

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