Chapter 135

I blinked. "What do you mean?" "If I hadn't been here, do you have any idea how dangerous this could've gotten?" "I..." I hesitated. He wasn't yelling. That somehow made it worse. "I didn't know it would turn into this. I heard Miss Davis's voice note. She asked me to dinner. I wasn't going to ignore it." "And once you realized it was a setup, why didn't you leave immediately?" "I couldn't. Not right away." He tugged at his tie and exhaled heavily. "Why didn't you call me?" I shrugged, sheepish. "I wanted to see what they were up to. And then I found out about Gary Maxwell taking bribes. I got, um, interested." "So you stayed and talked to him, knowing full well he had designs on you?" "I can take care of myself," I protested. "Fine, yeah, maybe I took a risk, but it was a minimal one. This is a public place. If things went wrong, I could have yelled. And I didn't drink any of the wine." That seemed to placate him somewhat. At least his jaw was no longer clenched. "I got him to confess