After that day, several attempts to kidnap Ariel were still made. Some were from Charity and Cole, and Dylan was unsure if the others were from Marcus or his grandfather. When he confronted them, they denied all of these allegations, and even the ones who confessed to being sent by that bitch, Charity had no way to link themselves to her other than their word. So Dylan could not report it to the police. Charity had scrubbed her tracks clean.

But he did increase security around Ariel and Paul and kept an eye on them at all times.

In the meantime, he wanted to finish the drug case in that...