Jack said. “I lost track of time. I was running down the driveway after you, hoping you’d see me.”He was standing right there as she got out of the car.He said, “Where is it?”“I don’t have it,” Kate said. She closed the car door and moved toward the lodge.“What do you mean? It wasn’t there, or they wouldn’t give it to you?”Kate opened the front door and went inside, Jack right behind her.He said, “Want to tell me what’s going on?”That’s what she wanted to know. She took her coat off and hung it on the back of a chair in the breakfast room. She went in the kitchen and got a glass out of the cupboard, opened the freezer, put a handful of ice cubes in the glass, poured some bourbon, and took a sip. She wasn’t going to offer him one.Jack said, “You’re kidding about the money, right?” Trying to sound calm. “You’re jerking my chain, aren’t you? It’s in the trunk, isn’t it?”“Why’re you so concerned about the money?”“ ’Cause you need it to get Luke back,”
