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Dawn finally arrived. Again. Jessica was cold and tired. Her feet felt like she’d been sitting in a tub for days. She was hungry.
But above it all, she was heartbroken. Braden betrayed her. He told the police where she was. If she wasn’t on her way out the door when they arrived, they would have caught her.
She hated it. It left an ache inside of her that would never go away. But she had a job to finish. She was going to get a confession out of the man who killed Karli, clear her name, and build a new life. Far away from Braden Wright.
The plan was to have everything done and settled the day before, but walking through the woods slowed Jessica down. She didn’t get as far as she’d hoped, and when dawn came the morning before, she was still miles away from Niagara Falls. She spent the
