Page 112 of Get A Fix

I turned to look at Ash.

“You left your phone next to me when you left to walk Gemma around.”

“I did?”

His smile was beautiful and made his eyes sparkle. “You did. And your boss called and told me to expect that woman right there, Supervisory Special Agent Deidre Merriweather out of the San Francisco office.”

“Why?”

“Her team has been working with the SFPD on the Voss investigation, and once I cleared up the whole thing about me not meeting with Voss, but with Kit instead, they’ve been able to quickly figure out what happened.”

“What did happen?”

“Carrie and Voss have been on the run this whole time.”

“Together?”

“Yes.”

“So all of that about her disappearing, everything—that was all just a distraction?” I asked, realizing I was shaking.

“That’s right,” Ash said gently, putting his hand on my face, and only then did I realize how cold I was. “We need to get you upstairs where it’s quiet.”

“No, I’m…fine.”

“You’re not. You were terrified for Gemma, and then when I called for you, that probably scared the hell out of you as well.”

“She could have killed Gemma, or you, and I…I haven’t been in my bodyguard headspace, so I wasn’t expecting a gun or⁠—”

He grabbed me then and hugged me tight, and finally—finally—I could breathe. And with the calm his embrace brought, my brain came back online.

“So Voss and Carrie, they ran away together before he was supposed to meet with the SEC. She was with him the whole time. Everything was staged.”

“That’s correct,” Deidre Merriweather praised me, stepping in close and extending her hand. “Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Davis.”

Ash kept his arm around my shoulders as I took her hand. “And you, SSA Merriweather.”

“I’ve been coordinating with your boss on this,” she said, putting her hands in the pockets of her trench coat. “Once he alerted us to the fact that Mr. Lennox had met with his friend, the actor Kit Riggs, and not Elliot Voss, we were able to start piecing together the rest of the story with the evidence and build a new and different timeline.”

“So everyone has been chasing a man who didn’t hurt his wife but instead who has been on the run with her for the last two weeks?”

“That’s correct.”

“Did the two of them kill Kit Riggs?”

“They did. Yes.”

“Why?”

“We’re fairly certain Mr. Riggs was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s a fairly convoluted story, but I promise you, as soon as we have all the puzzle pieces, you will too.”

“There were three men, Riggs and Mr. Abernathy and Mr. Ing,” I reminded her. “Are they all dead?”

“We believe so, but now that we have both Mr. and Mrs. Voss in custody, we’ll know for certain fairly soon.”

“And you’ll add to Carrie Voss’s charges her holding a gun on me and Gemma?”

“Of course,” she said flatly. “I’ll have you write up your statement today and email that to me.”