Of all the things he could have demanded, that was the most difficult. To ally herself with Jack now would be to admit she believed him innocent. Not only of Aaron Chandler’s murder, but of Evan’s. The repercussions of that were almost too enormous to absorb.She couldn’t bear to believe he’d spent the past year in prison for a crime he hadn’t committed. She didn’t want to think that she’d walked out on him when he’d needed her so desperately. That he’d been innocent all along. That she’d been so terribly wrong.Pressing her hand to the knots in her stomach, Landis turned away from him and walked into the kitchen. She felt sick inside and more uncertain than she’d ever felt in her life.“What’s it going to be, Red?” he asked.She’d always known Jack LaCroix wasn’t for the faint of heart. There was nothing easy about him. He could be uncompromising and unreasonable and stubborn as hell. He bent the rules until they broke. Pushed the limits until the boundaries changed.
