Duke signed the papers at 3 PM.
Not Connor's confession—Sierra's deal. The one she'd offered in the cell, what felt like a lifetime ago. Leave Valentina. Walk away clean. Let Connor take the fall.
His lawyer, Angela, stared at him in shock. "Duke, what are you doing?"
"Saving her." His voice was hollow. "Valentina's in jail because of me. This ends it."
"This ruins everything we've been planning—"
"I don't care." Duke's hand shook as he signed the last page. "Get this to Sierra. Tell her I accept. All conditions."
Angela grabbed the papers. "If you do this, there's no going back. You and Valentina—"
"Are over." The words tasted like ash. "Better that than her in prison."
He couldn't have known that Valentina was being released at that exact moment.
Couldn't have known that Sierra
