The sheriff swallowed once.
“Daniel,” he said quietly, “keep your hands where I can see them, but don’t let go of her.”
That sentence told me enough.
He believed the bracelet before he believed the man in the expensive coat.
A deputy moved toward the oak with a camera. Another blocked the tire tracks with orange cones from his trunk. The air smelled of damp bark, diesel exhaust, and the sharp metallic bite of adrenaline. Somewhere behind me, the ambulance siren rose and fell through the county road like an animal in pain.
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