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“We should call the police.

“We can tell them what happened at your cabin yesterday, and you can tell them about when I got shot. This whole thing can be over right now.”

Casey took a step back, her eyes wide and fearful. “I can’t do that, Jack.” What was it that had her so scared?

A flash of frustration filled him. “Can’t, or won’t?”

“Both. It’s the same thing.”

Jack noticed that she didn’t deny she’d seen the shooting. She was just refusing to testify, and without her testimony, Jack still had nothing concrete to prove his innocence or Stevens’s guilt.

He glanced back up at Casey, who had taken another step backward. She looked incredibly vulnerable and her expression squeezed his heart. He still didn’t know her story, but she had just saved his life. Again. Jack made a decision. He would figure out her history and the cause of her reticence at some point, but for now he’d have to think of something else.