LauriThe afternoon could have gone better. I had hoped to get down the hall and to the lobby before Mike saw me, but, of course, I should have known better. I couldn’t let that detective friend of his talk with Tanner, everything would have fallen apart, and I worked too hard to keep it all together. I just needed to have a quick word with him before Mike came flying down the stairs.
I doubted I had a single word out before he and that detective found me. At least they stayed away. At first when I had gotten the call from the guy pretending to be a cop, I thought it was legit, but when Mike told me about Bixby being the guy on the case, I knew what it was. Tanner heard about the accident and was just trying to get me alone.
Thing about Tanner was he could have just called me himself and
