Save Her Lose Us (Evangeline and Soren) novel Chapter 251

She didn't want to bring up Soren Fawkes again. It felt too much like gossiping behind his back.

She just wanted a clean break.

Finn Lockridge offered a small smile. "I'm not going to ask about Soren."

He already had his answer, so there was no point in asking anything else.

Finn adjusted his glasses on his nose and finally asked the one question that had driven him to approach Evangeline Whitmore in the first place—the one he'd been waiting for the right moment to ask.

"Where is Theresa Carlisle?"

At the question, Evangeline's gaze drifted up to meet his, her expression placid.

"That's the real reason you got close to me, isn't it?" she asked.

Finn didn't bother to deny it. He simply nodded. "Yes."

"If you didn't want to know the answer to that question, you never would have helped me. You wouldn't have… played along with me all this time." Her words were phrased as a question, but her tone was one of flat certainty.

"Yes," Finn replied, just as directly.

Hearing the unhesitating response, a self-deprecating smile touched Evangeline's lips.

She had replayed this scenario in her mind countless times, and this was always the answer that made the most sense. The moment she'd learned of his connection to Victor Lockridge, she had been sure of it.

She thought she had prepared herself for this moment. But hearing him confirm it still sent an unexpected pang of desolation and grief through her.

The music in the bar shifted, the beat growing louder, more aggressive.

The sound pulled Evangeline from her thoughts. "I don't know," she said.

"Victor has the resources to find her easily," she explained. "So, to guarantee she could get away safely, she never told anyone her destination. She didn't even know it herself."

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