I blinked. "What do you mean?"
"If I hadn't been here, do you have any idea how dangerous this could've gotten?"
"I..." I hesitated.
He wasn't yelling. That somehow made it worse.
"I didn't know it would turn into this. I heard Miss Davis's voice note. She asked me to dinner. I wasn't going to ignore it."
"And once you realized it was a setup, why didn't you leave immediately?"
"I couldn't. Not right away."
He tugged at his tie and exhaled heavily.
"Why didn't you call me?"
I shrugged, sheepish. "I wanted to see what they were up to. And then I found out about Gary Maxwell taking bribes. I got, um, interested."
"So you stayed and talked to him, knowing full well he had designs on you?"
"I can take care of myself," I protested. "Fine, yeah, maybe I took a
