My hands remained at my sides. “I won’t.”
“You keep reaching for me.”
“I’m trying to make sure you don’t fall.”
“I fell in there and survived it without you.”
The truth in that left me with nothing to say.
She folded her arms across herself. “Tell me everything.”
“This isn’t the place.”
“You lost the right to choose the place.”
A car passed, throwing water against the curb. Isla barely reacted.
I looked back toward the bar. Vaughn had not come outside. That worried me more than seeing him would have. He preferred rooms where he controlled the exits. He also preferred leaving before anyone realised the real damage had already been done.
“My family paid him to disappear,” I said.
Isla stared at me.
“After his prison sentence, my father’s lawyers arranged a settlement. Vaughn acce
