CHAPTER SIXTEEN
5:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Queen Anne’s County, Maryland
Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay
Luke was beat.
“Beat” didn’t even really get to the heart of the matter. He was beyond tired. Other than dozing on airplanes, he had barely slept in the past two days. He had driven here asleep with his eyes open. Thankfully, there was no one on the roads this time of night.
He got a piece of good news as he pulled into the gravel driveway of the house. Becca’s beat-up Subaru station wagon was there in the glow of his headlights. Audrey’s Mercedes sedan was nowhere to be seen.
Could it be? Luke almost didn’t dare to hope.
Could Audrey have gone home?
He killed the engine and the headlights, and just sat in the dark for a long moment. It was still an hour before sunrise, a
