CHAPTER 52
ARI
Three times on the way to Victorville, I broke down and cried at the side of the road. Until today, I’d harboured a stupid notion that if I could just solve the case, Zach would forgive me, but now that I’d felt the same pain for myself, I realised how much I was asking.
Worse, Erin was still sending through links of the guys surfing, and I had to watch the three of them cresting waves without a care in the world, two good men with a traitor lurking among them.
As I neared Paso Robles, Chase sent a message. I’d be staying in a three-star hotel, a development that seemed to embarrass him more than the fact that his boss was a scheming liar. He’d kept me in the dark too, but I couldn’t accuse him of lying outright because he’d barely said a thing about Alexa in the whole o
