“Someone want to tell me what’s going on?” Matt took a step toward her, his expression grave, scaring the hell out of her. “Carrie, can we just head to your place and talk? I think—” The reporter snapped some more pictures. “This is Jacob Spalding Jr., heir to Spalding Industries, the largest family-owned company in the U.S. He was also the main suspect in the Amanda Ames murder case.” Carrie’s heart hammered in her chest. Matt was the guy who’d been wrongly accused of killing Amanda Ames? Carrie remembered hearing on the news how Amanda’s supposed lover had been the main suspect, but she couldn’t have picked Jacob Spalding out of a lineup if her life depended on it. “And I was proven innocent. Now grab your friend and get your sorry asses out of my sight before you both need to be hauled away in an ambulance.” The reporter with the smashed camera climbed to his feet and raced back to the car, the second reporter hot on his heels. Once they were safely inside, Smashed Camera guy shouted, “Your days of hiding are over, Spalding.
