Chapter 45
“They have no evidence,” he said. “And we’ve got Trevor as an alibi.”
“Trev can only put us here for a very specific time period. As far as the police are going to be concerned, I’m unaccounted for long enough to do something to Gretchen.”
“You mean, we are.”
“If you think I’m going to let you—”
“Let me what? We didn’t do anything, Eli. We are completely in the clear here. You have to focus on the positive.”
Slowly, Eli shifted his gaze upward again. The miserable slump of his shoulders was even more doom and gloom than his face. “You need to cut your ties to me while you can. You don’t deserve any of this.”
“Neither do you. You’re innocent, too, you know.”
“Not completely.”
The quiet admission shocked Jarrett into stiffening. “What do you mean?” he asked carefully. “Is there something you held back from Yager?” Though he didn’t add from me, they both knew it was there, unspoken, a frigid fear looming between them.