"Did you think Derek was in on it?"

"I do. The dates of the bank deposit into the offshore account, they were the day that I was arrested. The sheriff was lying, and if I could buy his silence and ignorance on a recording of him, what power and money could do? I'm sure that Derek's parents knew his love of little boys as well."

"If this was so…

"I put Dorcas in the face of her rapist and left her vulnerable once more." He hadn't even wished to contemplate the guilt it would take for that ...