The drive back was twenty-two minutes, and Beth counted them. Every excruciating second. That was the only way to stop her mind from screening an entire documentary on the worst-case scenarios waiting for her.
Another twig from her towering sky scraper of lies sat bitter on her tongue, of course, but she wasn’t naive enough to think Santiago would just buy her lie and drop it.
She had been gone too long. Abaden had clearly flagged it, probably the moment she came out of the cafeteria service door, possibly even before that. There was every possibility he had known what would happen the second she'd walked into the cafeteria. After all, in his line of work, he had to anticipate danger every second, so he was not a man who missed things.
She had known that and done it anyway, which had
