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He squeezed her shoulder. “Let it go, Leigh.”
“But—”
“You didn’t want to press charges against Nolan, remember? You wouldn’t even let us report that you’d been drugged.”
As if she could ever forget. Memories of that night and what might have happened without Gavin had haunted her for years.
“There was no point. His family has all sorts of influence in this county. You know the police wouldn’t have believed us. They would have said you put the drug in my drink.”
“I know,” he said thoughtfully, releasing her to rub a hand across his chin. “I didn’t realize you did.”
“Of course I did! We couldn’t prove anything. Nolan would have said he handed me the wrong glass, or that someone else had slipped the drug into my soft drink.”
But she knew Nolan had deliberately handed her the drugged glass. There’d been something in his smirk, she’d seen it even then. She just hadn’t understood.
Leigh knew she’d been lucky. If he’d been able to slip the drug into the beer she’d drunk first, things would have ended very differently that night.
Looking back, she’d take bets that he had asked her and not Hayley to go out with him because Hayley would have taken one look at that party scene and created such a fuss Nolan would have had to take her home. Leigh’s stomach still churned at the memory of that awful party and Nolan’s group of leering friends.
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