Her voice wavered, with emotion and exhaustion, like someone who’d repeated the line too many times just to stay afloat. Evan recognized the cadence. He’d heard it before. But he couldn’t let go, and neither did he want to force her into confession.
He nodded slowly, letting the tension ebb. “All right,” he said. “I’ll stop.” She relaxed, barely, but her eyes stayed wide, wary. He realized she wasn’t worried he’d discover something shameful. All his first suspicions of Lena running from the law turned to dust. Clearly, she didn’t want to be dragged back into a life she had run from.