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She offered a lazy but sad smile. “We really have, and it hasn’t even been a year yet.”

For a moment, Duke forgot about their circumstances. He wanted to pretend like everything was right in his world.

And it almost was . . . other than a killer being after them.

And other than the walls Andi had put up, walls he didn’t understand.

Why wasn’t she letting him in? Had he done something to make Andi think she couldn’t trust him?

“Who would have thought that day that I came across your truck broken down on the side of the Dalton Highway that we’d be here right now?” Maybe reminiscing would make things feel normal for a moment.

“And that we would solve so many crimes together.” Her smile widened.

Duke reached across the table and squeezed her hand. “In case I haven’t told you, I’m really proud of you.”

Her cheeks practically glowed. “Thank you. I could have never done all this without you.”

“I beg to differ. You would havetotallydone this without me.”

Her smile gave away the truth. She would have foolhardily charged ahead to bring down Victor with or without him. She would have also fought with every last lick of energy she had to restore all the wrongs around her.

But it had probably been easier with his encouragement.

Just then, Duke’s phone rang. He glanced at the screen.

“It’s Gibson calling back.”

Then he answered.

CHAPTER 49

“Jared went to the hospital to visit one of his coworkers who was in a car accident,” Gibson told them. “We already confirmed his story, and it’s true.”

“I thought he went into Emmett’s room?” Andi said.

“If you look at the video, a nurse walks in front of him as he’s headed down the hallway,” Gibson explained. “It’s hard to tell exactly where he went. His friend’s room was right beside Emmett’s.”

Andi fought a frown. She’d hoped to get somewhere with this case, to find some type of answer.

Jared could still be a suspect, she supposed.

“Thanks for letting us know,” Duke said.

“Of course,” Gibson said. “We did find one thing that was interesting.”

Andi sat up straighter. “What’s that?”

“We looked through some of the photos Barb had posted on social media.”

“Barb is the woman who fell through the ice, right?” Duke clarified.

“That’s right. She was a nature photographer. Anyway, we were just doing our due diligence. But one of the photos she took at the camp was of the northern lights with the reindeer.”

“So what about it caught your eye?” Duke’s gaze narrowed with thought.

“If you blow it up and look in the background, you can see someone walking in the woods behind the reindeer.”

“What’s suspicious about that exactly?” Andi tried to put things together in her mind.