“I still have a half hour before I’m supposed to meet with him.” “Maybe he’ll be in his office. If we get this stuff out of the way, we can head out to Northstar early.” “I thought you had some RA thing to do this afternoon.” “I traded with Joe for next Friday.” “In that case….” She kissed his cheek. “I’ll see you in a couple minutes.” Beth grabbed the duck and took it downstairs, astonished that there weren’t any surprises waiting for her. She dropped the stuffed animal in the cardboard box with the rest of her evidence and stared at it all for a minute. The same anger that had claimed her last week when she’d retorted so sharply to Rich saturated her, and she clenched her jaw, furious that Trey was getting away with all this garbage… that he felt the need to do it. Hadn’t he done en

