Ruby’s POV

The news came early the next morning.

Pete Carson had been taken into custody. Falsifying account books, forging financial statements, multiple counts of fraud. There was even mention of a prior unresolved harassment complaint.

Apparently, I wasn’t his first victim.

I stared at the screen of my phone for a long time. There were no details about the incident last night—nothing about the forest, or his attempt to chase me down—but the charges were enough to bury him. And just ...