Zoe POV

Noah doesn’t leave quietly.

He’s already moving toward the door when James’s words catch up to him, and he turns back just long enough to say what he needs to say—his voice tight with a specific kind of fury that comes not from being accused of something false but from being asked about something he doesn’t want examined. “Whatever the truth is, it comes out. That’s what matters. And whatever we find in there—” he gestures, vaguely, in the ...