Scott stood there staring at her. He couldn’t have been more shocked if she’d said she taught witches and wizards at Hogwarts Academy. And he wasn’t just shocked; he was hurt. Painfully—angrily—he remembered how she’d played along when he’d “told” her about all this at lunch today. Emily Moak, Best Actress in a Lead Role.
He remembered something else, too. “Proof wouldn’t just be the money,” he said. “It’d be records, wouldn’t it.” He turned in the darkness to look at the dim outline of the motorcycle. “Like that three-ring binder you put in the saddlebags.”
“Yes.”
“That’s why you ‘forgot’ to take the combination with you. You needed the safe—and everything that might be inside it.”
“Yes,” she said. “Just like I needed Tyler for the back door key and the combination. I knew I had to ha
