"To the company," Timothy York replied.
Silas Dunn's eyes widened slightly. "The company?"
"If I'm coming back, I need a reason," Timothy York said slowly, gazing at the pitch-black sky outside the window.
'So he manufactured a crisis for his own company just to give himself a legitimate reason to come back?'
Silas Dunn was stunned for a moment, at a loss for words. After a long pause, he simply gave him a quiet thumbs-up.
...
Laura Thorne didn't show up at the police station again until just before noon the next day.
As it happened, Mason Crawford had just finished a meeting and was also there to inquire about the case's progress, so the two of them ran into each other in the police station courtyard.
After only one night—and with orders from above to be gentle with Summer Thorne—there had, to put it simply, been no progress on the case.
But Mason Crawford could tell at a glance that Laura Thorne no longer had the same panic and distress as the previous night.
