Explaining to Dempsey that they were leaving only took a few seconds, her cousin assumed that Tuck was outside, so he accepted that she was safe. Except Tuck wasn’t outside and the car they’d arrived in was gone. Kadie couldn’t ask for Dempsey’s or he would know that Tuck wasn’t giving her a ride.
Getting herself to a main road took longer than she thought, but eventually she got there and found a cab. The driver took the long way around for a shortcut, but she didn’t mind as it gave her a chance to think about what she was going to say.
Of course she wouldn’t tell Tuck that she had followed him. Instead, she decided to go with the work angle. Saying she was ill would make him baby her, so he wouldn’t talk to her, which was what she needed. There were files at home that needed her attent
