CHAPTER 179

DECLAN

"I am listening."

She stared down at her hand and sighed. "Ryder was the first to approach me at the estate, but I didn't want to work with him at that time, so I kicked him out, later, when you told us to leave the estate, I knew I had to reach out to him."

The detective glanced at me and I nodded, catching on his silent request to let him take over from her.

"What was his offer when he ap