Before he did something stupid like touch her again. He rubbed the tips of his tingling fingers against his thumb. Inwardly cursed himself for giving in to his instincts to soothe her. To take away her pain. “Do you think anything you could’ve said would’ve stopped her?” he asked, glad he sounded as professional as always. “I’m not sure.” Layne hugged her arms around herself and walked to one of the small windows behind his desk overlooking the alleyway. “But I let her leave. And now she’s dead.” Ross stopped himself from pointing out that Valerie had been dead for eighteen years, because he knew to Layne and her family, it was as if the murder had just happened. “It’s not your fault.” “Yeah. I know that.” But her voice shook, and it took all he had to stay where he was. To not close the distance between them and pull her into his arms. “Do you?”
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