Sarah.”
“How long?”
“Meredith.”
“How long has she been with him?”
His silence answered before his words did.
“Before the accident,” he finally confessed in a low voice.
Nausea rolled through me.
I nodded slowly.
“So there was no accident.”
“There was an accident.”
“What?”
Julian exhaled.
“Adrian was in the car, but he survived. Someone else didn’t.”
I stared at him.
“He took advantage of the accident to disappear.”
Julian’s face tightened.
“He panicked.”
“He faked his d:eath.”
“He thought it was the only way to get out.”