Chapter 216

“Then you didn’t ask him to do it?”

She threw up her hands in frustration. “Of course I didn’t. Is that what you really think? That I came down here to talk Nolan out of finding my brother? Or, oh wait, maybe this is it. I came down here pretending to help Nolan , but what I was really doing was trying to distract him so Andrew could get away.”

At her rant, J.D. looked a little relieved as well as a little chagrined. “I just assumed—”

“Well, you were wrong.”

“I’m glad,” he said with a grin.

“And you’re wrong about Nolan, too. He’d never do something so completely against his nature.”

“He would for you.” He said it quietly, but with such complete confidence that for a moment she was shocked into silence.

She pushed herself to her feet. “Do you know where Nolan went?” she asked J.D.

The look he gave her was full of suspicion. She rolled her eyes. “Look, I’m just trying to help.” When the suspicion didn’t fade, she added with emphasis, “T