Roxie's pulse hammered so hard she thought she might faint. For one dizzying moment, her instincts screamed at her to run, hide, or just vanish like a magic trick. But that would be pointless, she realized. The vehicle that had stopped behind Mitch’s car trapped them in the glare of its headlights, cutting through the darkness of the night like an interrogation lamp.
But who was it? Her breath hitched as her first thought went to Elias, and bile rose to the back of her throat. Her skin prickled in cold sweat. Elias was the last person she wanted to find her standing suspiciously at this time of the night with Mitch. That wouldn’t be a shock; it would be a nuclear explosion.
What had she been thinking? She’d known hanging out with Mitch was a bad idea, given his connection to her ex-husb
