Chapter 85

Elena had no clue what to expect when she found Danika—her best friend—on the other side of the tinted window.

At first, she thought maybe Cortez had hounded her just like he did to Elena all night, and now it was because Danika had slipped and said something she shouldn’t have—something that made the case even stronger against her—she was brought merely to show her how the hell she was going down.

The thought brought a bad taste to her mouth and a shudder to pass through her spine.

All Danika would have to do was to spill everything about Elena’s small revenge plan and that’s all it would take for Cortez to pin the murder on her. The man was hellbent on proving Elena a murderer and she couldn’t understand for the life of her, why?

Surely, not every evidence could be pointing at her, right?

There had to be something—no matter how small—to prove that she was innocent.

Behind her, she felt Detective Cortez whispering something to his partner—another detective. And when she glanced over h