Chapter 15

Kane was silent, seeming to consider his words. Eventually, he gave a heavy sigh. “They’re right. It’s a complicated situation and I want to make sure you have the facts, not some part truths.” He looked around and spotted a log near the edge of the woods. “Come on. We’ll sit over here and talk. There’s less chance of being interrupted outside than there is at the house.”

She followed him to the place he’d indicated curious as to what he’d have to tell her. Whatever it was, he looked grim. Sitting down beside him, she waited for him to speak, studying his profile out of the corner of her eye. His jaw was set and his brows were lowered but the dark hair that fell across his forehead softened what might otherwise have been a stern face. When he finally spoke, it wasn’t about Thomas, but about an incident that had happened several months earlier.

“Remember how I told you that Zack had been killed in a car accident? He was coming home, took a curve too fast, and ended up goi