Working faster, Korbin wound the extension cord around Damen’s body, making sure his arms and legs were securely bound. He used duct tape to wrap around his ankles and wrists, double assurance he wasn’t going anywhere.
Slowly, she moved toward him. “He was going to shoot me.”
He straightened and looked at her. “Yes.”
Confusion and fear and abating adrenaline kept her face slack. “Why?”
Damen’s head rolled and began to lift.
Korbin helped him out by gripping a handful of hair and yanking his head back. Damen met his eyes groggily. As it dawned on him that he was bound, awareness of his situation came into his eyes.
“What don’t you want me to know about Tony?” Korbin asked.
A sick clown smile curved his lips. “I can’t wait to see you rot in jail.”
“I thought you wanted me dead.”
Damen lowered his head and tested the binds at his wrists and ankles.
“A little hard to kill me like that,” Korbin said. “Some friend you turned out to be.”
“You’ve been getting too righteous, Maguire. I should have seen this coming a lot sooner than I did.”
“What? That I wasn’t going to do your bidding anymore?”
“You didn’t have a problem with it before.”
“Well, I do now. How did you find me?”
“When you didn’t show up here, I used Chavis’s snowmobile and backtracked your path. That’s how I found your truck. Got stuck, did you? Lost in the storm?” Damen chuckled and glanced over at Savanna. “Well, you always were lucky with the ladies. Or did you plan to stumble upon a beauty like her? Did you know I’d look here for you?”
Savanna sent Korbin a sharp look that questioned the validity of Damen’s claim.
“I didn’t know you were coming after me until you started shooting,” Korbin said. “Tony must be someone important to you if you’re willing to kill to keep him a secret.”
The clown smile faded. Damen didn’t like that much. Whatever his association with Tony was, it was a dangerous one.
“You should have left Collette’s computer alone, Maguire. Why did you think to look there? I never did. I didn’t know she was getting suspicious of me. How much did she find out? Is that why the two of you met?”
“You set me up for that hit-and-run.” He hadn’t explained any of this to Savanna, and she was absorbing all of it with a good amount of speculative confusion.
“You and Collette were conspiring against me.”
“No,” Korbin said. “What did you think was going on with us?”
“Were you sleeping with her?” Damen asked, emotion darkening his eyes. “Were you with her the night before you met her at the restaurant?”
Collette must have succeeded in avoiding him that night. “No. I never slept with her.”
“She liked you.” His mouth and eyes contorted with a sneer. “She talked about you all the time. And she said the two of you were friends.”